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rover
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Rover Company was a British bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer before it began the manufacture of motor cars . Rover was established in 1878 by John Kemp Starley in Coventry to produce bicycles. The company developed and produced the Rover Imperial ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "sea-robber, pirate," from Middle Dutch rover "robber, predator, plunderer," especially in zeerovere "pirate," literally "sea-robber," from roven "to rob," from Middle Dutch roof "spoil, plunder," related to Old English reaf "spoil, plunder," ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life [syn: wanderer , roamer , bird of passage ] an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement [syn: scouter ]
Usage examples of rover.
Land Rovers screaming around the desert, men in black kit abseiling down embassy walls, or free fallers with all the kit on, leaping into the night.
There were still some addax antelope down in the dunes, but mostly the local sheiks had sportingly shot them out, using high-powered rifles with telescopic sights from the backs of Land Rovers.
Lieutenant Akers saw you put one under that rover, and my guess was that you took the opportunity once you were inside the habitat to bury a few more.
With the biplane off their minds, the Rovers rejoined their friends in the automobile, and took a run through the country for fifty miles or more.
The money was paid over, and the Rover boys gave the purchaser a bill of sale, and he departed without delay, stating he wished to make arrangements for shipping the wrecked biplane away.
A Rover out of the seaport of March Brume, west and south on the Blue Divide, he was a seasoned veteran of countless conflicts even before he signed on.
People of all sorts came and went in March Brume, and where a Rover population dominated, it was best to mind your own business.
The carabiniere with the gun took aim and the space behind the Land Rover cleared, with everybody ducking down and scattering.
Placanica, the young carabiniere in the Land Rover, with a stone, and nor do you see anybody putting their hand in to try and open the holster and take the gun.
Gunex the other four had completed their fuelling from White Rover, now Devon was rejoining the formed squadron on a course of 230 degrees, south-westward, more or less right into wind and sea.
From these rovers, however, Cedric and Athelstane accounted themselves secure, as they had in attendance ten servants, besides Wamba and Gurth, whose aid could not be counted upon, the one being a jester and the other a captive.
Land Rover, then she began explaining about the station, the thousands of cattle, the jackeroos - which were cowboys - airplanes, buildings, etc.
Rover and Wally drove them to the empty house that backed on to the house where the Leyland Clydesdale was parked.
The rhinoceros stampling and lubering about in the tall grass, charging a land rover, making it jolt and rock as tourists run for cover, screaming, the camera shaking and jerking.
She took him by train to the town of Sisophon near the Thai border, and from there they were taken by Land Rover on a two-hour journey during which Tran Quock Cong was blindfolded.