rove

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To shoot with arrows (at).
2. verb To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
3. verb To roam or wander through.
4. verb To card wool or other fibres.
5. verb To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
6. verb To draw through an eye or aperture.
7. verb To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
8. verb To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Similar words

drift cast ramble range wander roam vagabond stray swan rover

Often followed by

through about the and over in beetles was from

Word family

reeve roved roves roving