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 rover ['rәuvә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 漂泊者, 流浪者, 海盗

[法] 流浪者, 海盗, 海盗船




    rover
    [ noun ]
    1. someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

    2. <noun.person>
    3. an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

    4. <noun.person>


    Rover \Rov"er\, n. [D. roover a robber. See {Rove}, v. i.]
    1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.

    Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for
    scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846
    sail of ships. --Holland.

    2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a
    rambler.

    3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.

    4. (Croquet) 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.

    5. (Archery)
    (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances. --Encyc. Brit.
    (b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.]

    All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.
    --B. Jonson.

    {At rovers}, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting
    at rovers. See def. 5
    (a) above. --Addison.

    Bound down on every side with many bands because
    it shall not run at rovers. --Robynson
    (More's
    Utopia).

    1. An Oregon bank said it used "rover tellers" during leaves. About 25% of its employees took the full 12-week leave, and it called turnover related to parental leave "a minor addition" to its overall turnover rates.
    2. The Philippine Constabulary said the Philippine sailors were traveling to Manila Sunday when rebels opened fire on their land rover near the town of Hermosa on the Bataan peninsula.
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