roving
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[edit]roving (comparative more roving, superlative most roving)
- Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 139:
- The Northern Territory was dear to us both, and the fever for a roving life had not yet worn off, but some time elapsed before we could quite make up our minds whether to try our fortunes in Port Darwin again or not.
- Of the eyes or gaze, inspecting all over; not staying fixed on one subject.
- His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.
- 1989, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Visible Breath, Dark Horse Books:
- It could complicate things for our little household. Particularly when Larry’s roving eye is factored in.
- 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
- There was a tall, green-eyed young woman with steeply slanting Central European cheekbones who particularly caught his sexually abstinent but still roving eye.
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Noun
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roving (countable and uncountable, plural rovings)
- A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn or in felting.
- The process of giving the first twist to yarn.
Verb
[edit]roving
- present participle and gerund of rove