ro·ver /ˈrovɚ/
漂泊者,流浪者,海盜
Rov·er n.
1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. --Holland.
2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
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.
5. Archery (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
(b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.]
All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. --B. Jonson.
At rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 (a) above. --Addison.
Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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rover
n 1: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life [syn: wanderer,
roamer, bird of passage]
2: an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement [syn: scouter]