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Word Meanings - ROVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt

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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. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. B. Jonson. At rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 above. Addison. Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. Robynson . (more info) 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.

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  • PLUNDERER
    One who plunders or pillages.
  • FREEBOOTER
    One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon. (more info) vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and
  • BUCCANEERISH
    Like a buccaneer; piratical.
  • INVADER
    One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
  • BUCCANEER
    A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Note: Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner
  • BUSHWHACKER
    1. One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes. They were gallant bushwhackers, and hunters of raccoons by moonlight. W. Irving. 2. A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses
  • FILIBUSTER
    A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition
  • FILIBUSTERISM
    The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.
  • GUERILLA
    See GUERRILLA
  • ROVER
    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. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt
  • PILLAGER
    One who pillages. Pope.
  • FREEBOOTERY
    The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting. Booth.
  • PIRATE
    1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor. 2. An
  • MARAUDER
    A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.
  • CORSAIR
    Pr. corsari), LL. corsarius, fr. L. cursus a running, course, whence Sp. corso cruise, corsa cruise, coasting voyage, corsear to cruise against the enemy, to pirate, corsario cruising, a privateer 1. A pirate; one who cruises about without
  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • CONTROVERSAL
    1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • RETROVERT
    To turn back.
  • UNCONTROVERSORY
    Not involving controversy. Bp. Hall.
  • IMPROVER
    One who, or that which, improves.
  • CONTROVERSOR
    A controverser.
  • BERING SEA CONTROVERSY
    A controversy between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of
  • PROVERB
    1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. Chaucer. Bacon. 2. A striking
  • PROVERBIALIST
    One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
  • CONTROVERSARY
    Controversial. Bp. Hall.
  • CONTROVERTIBLE
    Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.
  • CONTROVERSIAL
    Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.
  • CONTROVERSION
    Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.

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