Arraying and Roving

noun

• Travelling about without any clear destination.
  • usage: "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
  • synonyms: wandering, vagabondage

verb

• Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
  • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
  • synonyms: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

adjective

• Migratory.
  • usage: "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
  • synonyms: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Rove.
• (n.) The act of one who roves or wanders.
• (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
• (n.) The operatin of forming the rove or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame or roving machine.