A randomly selected target.
"By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or rovers, better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails.
A pirate.
Diogenes will deſpiſe thee for all that, who being expoſed and offered to ſale by the rovers and theeves that tooke him, cried and proclaimed himſelfe aloud: Who will buy a maſter who?
Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.
A stereotypical given name for a dog.
Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.
A former make of a British motorcar.
From Middle English roven (“to wander, to shoot an arrow randomly”) + -er.
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