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at rovers

at rovers prepositional phrase: at random.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (obsolete) at random.
    • shooting at rovers
    • Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers.1551 Raphe Robynson translation of Thomas More's Utopia T. F. Didbin's 1808 edition, Vol.2 Ch.9 p.161

Questions about at rovers

What does at rovers mean?
At rovers means at random.
What part of speech is at rovers?
At rovers is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at rovers in the dictionary

  1. at rack and manger
  2. at random
  3. at rest
  4. at right angles to
  5. at risk
  6. at rovers
  7. at scale
  8. at school
  9. at sea
  10. at second hand
  11. at short notice

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