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Roving

//ˈɹoʊvɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.

    "The Northern Territory was dear to us both, and the fever for a roving life had not yet worn off, but some time elapsed before we could quite make up our minds whether to try our fortunes in Port Darwin again or not."

  2. 2
    Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.

    "His roving eyes never focused on anything specific."

Adjective
  1. 1
    migratory wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn or in felting. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    travelling about without any clear destination wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of giving the first twist to yarn. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of rove form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From rove + -ing

Etymology 2

From rove (“sliver of wool or cotton”), late 17th century, possibly from obsolete Middle English rove(n) (“to draw out, pull off”), itself a dialectal variant of rive (“to tear, split”).

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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