'Rover' definitions:
Definition of 'rover'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Rover'
From: GCIDE
- Rover \Rov"er\, n. [D. roover a robber. See Rove, v. i.]
- 1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. [1913 Webster]
- Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Archery) (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster] (b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- At rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 (a) above. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rover'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Ahasuerus,
- air pirate,
- airplane hijacker,
- Ancient Mariner,
- Argonaut,
- bird of passage,
- Blackbeard,
- buccaneer,
- bum,
- Captain Hook,
- Captain Kidd,
- corsair,
- drifter,
- floater,
- Flying Dutchman,
- freebooter,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- go-about,
- Goliard,
- gypsy,
- Henry Morgan,
- hobo,
- itinerant,
- Jean Lafitte,
- mover,
- nomad,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- picaroon,
- pirate,
- privateer,
- rambler,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- runabout,
- sea dog,
- sea king,
- sea robber,
- sea rover,
- sea wolf,
- skyjacker,
- sojourner,
- straggler,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- tourist,
- tramp,
- traveller,
- troubadour,
- Ulysses,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- viking,
- visitant,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar,
- wayfarer