• of Reeve • To draw through an eye or aperture. • To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. • To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. • A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building. • A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving. • To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. • Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. • To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). • To wander over or through. • To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together. • The act of wandering; a ramble.