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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Rōv'er, n.

noun

n. 1. A wanderer; one who rambles about.

  1. A fickle or inconstant person.
  2. A robber or pirate; a freebooter. Bacon.
  3. A sort of arrow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

At rovers, without any particular aim; at random; as, shooting at rovers. [Rare.] See ROVE, 2. Addison.