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   Rover (?), n. [D. roover a robber. See Rove, v. i.]
   1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
   
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   Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. Holland.
   
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   2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
   
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   3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
   
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   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.
   
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   5. (Archery) (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances.  Encyc. Brit.
   
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   (b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.]
   
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   All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. B. Jonson.
   
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   At rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, “shooting at rovers”. See def. 5 (a) above. Addison.
   
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   Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. Robynson (More's Utopia).
   
   
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