Meaning of Rover | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A randomly selected target.
   plural-normally
2. A pirate.
3. Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.
4. A stereotypical given name for a dog.
5. One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
6. A pirate ship.
7. someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.
8. A former make of a British motorcar.
9. A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
10. A member of the senior section of the Boy Scout movement catering for men of age 18 upwards, now disbanded.
11. A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
12. A remotely-operated vehicle.
13. A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
14. A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
15. 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.
16. The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
17. A sort of arrow.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“"By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or rovers, better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails.”

“But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.”

“I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.”

“She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.”

“Give him the word, that I'm not a rover, and tell him that his lonely days are over.”

“September 19, 2005, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY" NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the "Erebus Highway." "Erebus Crater," the rover's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position”

“I went to Coach Beamer and, because we had a lot of outside linebackers, ask him if I could play rover.”

“All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.”

“Diogenes will deſpiſe thee for all that, who being expoſed and offered to ſale by the rovers and theeves that tooke him, cried and proclaimed himſelfe aloud: Who will buy a maſter who?”

“The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.”

“Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.”

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