2. Noun. (plural of rover) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rovers
1. rover [n] - See also: rover
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rovers
Literary usage of Rovers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children's singing games: With the Tunes to which They are Sung : 1st-2nd Series by Alice Bertha Gomme (1894)
"and the game ends with a pretended fight or battle ; or the rovers try to catch
the Guardian Soldiers, who, when caught, ..."
2. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1892)
"A PARTY OF rovers. — LITTLE LOO AND THE DOCTOR. ... we fell in with a band of
six veteran rovers, prowling about the village and harbour, who had just come ..."
3. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1892)
"A PARTY OF rovers. LITTLE LOO AND THE DOCTOR. ... we fell in with a band of six
veteran rovers, prowling about the village and harbour, who had just come ..."
4. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1847)
"A Party of rovers. — Little Loo and the Doctor. ... we fell in with a band of
six veteran rovers, prowling about the village and harbour, who had just come ..."
5. Letters from the Shores of the Baltic by Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1844)
"Such was the sorry remnant of the naval force of Marocco, whose Sallee rovers
used to keep in constant alarm the peaceful merchantmen of Christendom. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and Average: With References to by Joseph Arnould (1849)
"Of pirates and rovers. Loss thus incurred was formerly included in our maritime
law amongst the general ... 3 c 2 Loss by pirates, rovers, and thieves. ..."
7. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"... more con- Puritan stant in prayer or more assiduous in sea-rovers reading the
Bible than the dauntless rovers, Drake and Hawkins, Gilbert and Cavendish. ..."
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