Usually means: Wanders or travels without purpose.
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  1. roves: Merriam-Webster
  2. roves: Collins English Dictionary
  3. roves: Vocabulary.com
  4. Rove's, Roves, Roves, roves: Wordnik
  5. roves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. roves: Wiktionary
  7. roves: Dictionary.com
  8. roves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. roves: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Roves: Wordnik

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rove)

verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
verb:  (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
verb:  (transitive) To roam or wander through.
verb:  (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
verb:  To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
verb:  To draw through an eye or aperture.
verb:  To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
verb:  To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
noun:  A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
noun:  A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
noun:  The act of wandering; a ramble.
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