Definition of Rovers

1. Noun. (plural of Rover) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of rover) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rovers

1. rover [n] - See also: rover

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rovers

rouvilleite
roux
rouxelite
rouze
rouzed
rouzes
rouzing
roué
rove
rove beetle
rove beetles
roved
rovelizumab
roven
rover
rovers (current term)
roves
rovibrational
rovibrationally
rovibronic
roving
rovingly
rovingness
rovings
row
row-equivalence
row-equivalent
row house
row houses
row of bricks

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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