What is the name meaning of ROVER. Phrases containing ROVER
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Female
English
Old English name GYPSY means "Bohemian, rover."Â
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German
German : variant of Rufer.German : variant of Roffers.English : variant of Rover 1.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Wanderer
Boy/Male
English
Wanderer.
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English
English : occupational name for someone who constructed or repaired roofs, from an agent derivative of Middle English roof (Old English hrÅf). In the Middle Ages roofs might be thatched with reeds or straw, or covered with tiles, slates, or wooden shingles.German and English : nickname for an unscrupulous individual, from Middle Low German rÅver ‘pirate’, ‘robber’, Middle English rover. The English verb rove ‘to wander’ is probably a back-formation from this, and is not attested before the 16th century, so it is unlikely to lie behind any examples of the surname.German : variant of Röver (see Roever).
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn ‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘sea-rover’ (from Old Norse vÃkingr).Irish : variant of Hagan.English : patronymic from the medieval personal name Higgin, a pet form of Hick.
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v. i.
Casual marks at uncertain distances.
v. i.
A sort of arrow.
v.
A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.
n.
One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
v. i.
One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
v. i.
One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
v. i.
To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
n.
One who ranges; a rover; sometimes, one who ranges for plunder; a roving robber.
n.
A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.