Roveth vs Riveth - What's the difference?
roveth | riveth |
(archaic) (rove)
(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)
(rive)
To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To pierce or cleave with a weapon.
* :
(label) To break apart; to split.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:
* (1665-1728)
In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).
As verbs the difference between roveth and riveth
is that roveth is (archaic) (rove) while riveth is (rive).roveth
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Verb
(head)rove
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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.
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----riveth
English
Verb
(head)rive
English
Verb
- I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks
- And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body
- The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .
- Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.