rover

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someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc

soccer someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

A popular name for a dog
A pirate or pirate ship
A randomly selected target
Position in Australian Rules football, one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6')
One who roves
A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies

The Mars Exploration Rovers will act as robot geologists while they are on the surface of Mars.

{n} a wanderer, fickle person, pirate
Any mobile GPS receiver collecting data during a field session The receiver's position can be computed relative to another, stationary GPS receiver
The final, twelfth, hoop to be run, marked with a red crossbar
in certain tournament movements, a pair that replaces a different pair in each round
One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate
Hence, a fickle, inconstant person
an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
Casual marks at uncertain distances
One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler
someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball
Position in Australian Rules football, one of three of a teams followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6)
{i} wanderer, roamer, one who meanders; machine that stretches and twists fibers to prepare them for spinning; operator of a roving machine
A sort of arrow
Any mobile GPS receiver and data logger collecting data in the field A roving receiver’s position can be differentially corrected relative to a stationary base GPS receiver
Rover's Return
the pub in the British television soap opera Coronation Street, where many of the characters often meet
Mars Rover
Any of a number of small unmanned remote-controlled vehicles sent to the planet Mars to do scientific research
ruck rover
position in Australian rules football, one of three followers, formerly a secondary ruckman, now an athletic player generally taller than a rover
sea rover
A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder

It was a ridiculous scheme, both as to the force which was to take the ship, and her employment as a buccaneer -- the state of the ocean and of navigation being such at that time as to leave a sea-rover, pursued as he would be by the fleets of all nations, without a sea to sail in, without a coast to land on, without a rock or corner to hide in.

sea rover
One who roams about the ocean much of the time
sea rover
A herring
Land Rover
a type of strong British car made for travelling over rough ground
Land Rover
{i} British trademark for a four-wheel-drive car
Range Rover
a type of large car made in the UK. Range Rovers are strongly built, like Land Rovers, so they can be driven on rough ground, but they are more comfortable
land-rover
type of jeep, type of all-terrain vehicle
rovers
plural of rover
sea rover
One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel
sea rover
{i} buccaneer, pirate; person who commits sea robbery; pirate ship; person travels greatly by sea
rover

    Hyphenation

    ro·ver

    Turkish pronunciation

    rōvır

    Pronunciation

    /ˈrōvər/ /ˈroʊvɜr/

    Etymology

    [ 'rO-v&r ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English roven, to wander, to shoot an arrow randomly
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