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Rove vs Slink - What's the difference?

rove | slink |

As nouns the difference between rove and slink

is that rove is a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding while slink is snail.

As a verb rove

is (obsolete|intransitive) to shoot with arrows (at) or rove can be (rive).

rove

English

Etymology 1

Of uncertain origin; perhaps a dialectal form of (rave).

Verb

(rov)
  • (obsolete) To shoot with arrows (at).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
    • And thou that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue [...].
  • To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
    • 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.
  • To roam or wander through.
  • * Milton
    • Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.
  • To card wool or other fibres.
    • (Jamieson)
  • 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.
    • (Hakluyt)
    Derived terms
    * rover * roved * roving
    Related terms
    * reeve

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rive)

    • Anagrams

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    slink

    English

    Verb

  • To sneak about furtively.
  • * Milton
    • Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
  • * Landor
    • There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
  • * '>citation
  • To give birth to an animal prematurely.
    • a cow that slinks her calf

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland) thin; lean

    • Anagrams

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