A pirate or freebooter. (See pirate.) Also, a kind of piratical galley of the Barbary States.
·vi A sort of arrow. II. Rover ·vi Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. III. Rover ·vi Casual marks...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel. ...