Bove vs Rove - What's the difference?
bove | rove |
Above.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
(obsolete) To shoot with arrows (at).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
To roam or wander through.
* Milton
To card wool or other fibres.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
The act of wandering; a ramble.
* Young
(rive)
As a preposition bove
is above.As a verb rove is
to shoot with arrows (at).As a noun rove is
a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.bove
English
Alternative forms
* 'bovePreposition
(English prepositions)- Her Sea-god syre she dearely did perswade, / T'endow her sonne with threasure and rich store, / Boue all the sonnes, that were of earthly wombes ybore.
rove
English
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; perhaps a dialectal form of (rave).Verb
(rov)- And thou that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue [...].
- Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
- Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.
- (Jamieson)
- (Hakluyt)
Derived terms
* rover * roved * rovingNoun
(en noun)- In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.