Rove (1 syl.)
. To shoot with roving arrows—i.e. arrows shot at a roving mark, either in height or distance.
To shoot at rovers. To shoot at certain marks of the target so called; to shoot at random without any distinct aim.
“Unbelievers are said by Clobery to ‘shoot at rovers.ʹ”—Divine Glimpses, p. 4 (1659).
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.