roving

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They are tired of this mixture of trade with free-roving, and are anxious to sail in seas where we shall be more likely to fall in with something worth picking up Stop, Redford, I want to hear no more.

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  1. The act of rambling or wandering. The numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. Barrow, Sermons, I. 177. (Latham.)
  2. Archery as practised by a rover. See rover, 4.
  3. The process of giving the first twist to yarn, or of forming a rove.

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