Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete aphetic form of behove, behoove.
- Preterit and past participle of heave.
- noun Same as
hoove . - noun The ground-ivy, Nepeta Glechoma.
- To lift; heave.
- To swell; inflate.
- To rise; ascend.
- To swell.
- To wait; linger; loiter; hover about.
- To hover in the air.
- To float.
- To move; stand aside.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
heave . - See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to, etc., under
Heave . - intransitive verb obsolete To hover around; to loiter; to lurk.
- verb Obs. or Scot. To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
raise ;lift ; hold up. - verb intransitive To
rise . - verb nautical Simple past tense and past participle of
heave . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
heave . - verb obsolete, intransitive To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to
float , tohover . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
wait ,linger . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
move on orby . - verb intransitive To
remain ;delay . - verb intransitive To remain
stationary (usually on horseback).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Off the north shore of Prince Edward Island, then a wild, wooded land, with settlements few and far between, the Captain hove-to in order to replenish his supply of water.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917
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'At one place, some suburban villa, he could get no answer to his ring, and he "hove" his cards over the gate just as it opened, and he had the shame of explaining in his unexplanatory French to the man picking them up.
My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878
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'At one place, some suburban villa, he could get no answer to his ring, and he "hove" his cards over the gate just as it opened, and he had the shame of explaining in his unexplanatory French to the man picking them up.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878
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We "hove" our deep-sea-line by night, and the operation was very interesting, at least to me.
Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855
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Together we hove up the rope till the anchor I came in sight with the sturgeon line caught across one of the flukes.
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Of course, if anybody hove in sight, the position was instantly reversed.
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He began his second round with two early bogeys but as the back nine hove into view so did his famous spirit as four birdies turned a ho-hum day into the exactly the kind of day he needed.
Masters 2011: Rory McIlroy shines but Tiger Woods prowls 2011
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Never a day does the gray thin, or the snow-squalls cease that we do not sight ships, west-bound like ourselves, hove-to and trying to hold on to the meagre westing they possess.
CHAPTER XXXIX 2010
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Being Umm Hassane, she hove off to her neighborhood Amal office, with a “connected” relative she had browbeaten into coming with her, to complain.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Mostly my husband has worked in male-dominated environments so he can get a bit excited when real live women hove into view.
grandpa27 commented on the word hove
hove in the expression "hove around the bend" is equivalent to came.
July 17, 2014