1. (v.i.)rove to wander about without definite destination; move here and there at random, esp. over a wide area.
2. (v.t.)rove to wander over or through; traverse.
3. (n.)rove an act of roving.
4. (v.t.)rove to form (slivers of wool, cotton, etc.) into slightly twisted strands in a preparatory process of spinning.
Etymology: (1780–90; of obscure orig.)
Definition of 'rove'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
Definition of 'rove'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)rove a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building
2. (noun)rove a roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving
3. (noun)rove the act of wandering; a ramble
4. rove of Reeve
5. (verb)rove to draw through an eye or aperture
6. (verb)rove to draw out into flakes; to card, as wool
7. (verb)rove to twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning
8. (verb)rove to practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy
9. (verb)rove hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise
10. (verb)rove to shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range)
11. (verb)rove to wander over or through
12. (verb)rove to plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together
Definitions of rove 
Afrikaans: swerf
Arabic: يَطوف، يَجول
Bulgarian: скитам
Brazilian: vaguear
Czech: toulat se
German: schweifen
Danish: strejfe (om)
Greek: περιπλανιέμαι
Spanish: vagar, errar
Estonian: hulkuma
Farsi: پرسه زدن
Finnish: samota
French: vagabonder
Hebrew: לְשוֹטֵט
Hindi: घूमना
Croatian: tumarati, potucati se
Hungarian: barangol
Indonesian: mengembara
Icelandic: ráfa (um)
Italian: vagare, vagabondare
Japanese: うろつく
Korean: 방황하다
Lithuanian: bastytis, klajoti
Latvian: klejot; klaiņot
Malay: merayau
Dutch: zwerven
Norwegian: vandre omkring, flakke, s
Polish: włóczyć się
Persian: پرسه زدن
Pashto: خوشی ګرځیدل
Portuguese: vaguear
Romanian: a hoinări
Russian: бродить
Slovak: túlať sa
Slovenian: klatiti se
Serbian: tumarati
Swedish: ströva omkring, vandra
Thai: ร่อนเร่พเนจร
Turkish: aylak aylak dolaşmak, baş
Taiwanese: 漫遊，流浪
Ukrainian: блукати
Urdu: آوارہ گردی کرنا
Vietnamese: đi lang thang
Chinese: 漫游，流浪
