Hove

Word HOVE
Character 4
Hyphenation hove
Pronunciations /həʊv/

Definitions and meanings of "Hove"

What do we mean by hove?

Preterit and past participle of heave.

To wait; linger; loiter; hover about.

To hover in the air.

To float.

To move; stand aside.

An obsolete aphetic form of behove, behoove.

The ground-ivy, Nepeta Glechoma. noun

Same as hoove. noun

To lift; heave.

To swell; inflate.

To rise; ascend.

To swell.

Imp. & p. p. of heave.

See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to, etc., under Heave.

To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. verb

To hover around; to loiter; to lurk. intransitive verb

To raise; lift; hold up. verb

To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.

To wait, linger.

To move on or by.

To remain; delay.

To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hove

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The word "hove" in example sentences

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. ❋ Lucy Maud (1917)

'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. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

We "hove" our deep-sea-line by night, and the operation was very interesting, at least to me. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Of course, if anybody hove in sight, the position was instantly reversed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The schooner was hove to under jib, foresail, and mainsail. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the sealing grounds, when hove to, a watch of only a single man is kept through the night, each man holding the deck for an hour. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Straits of Le Maire into this gray storm-ocean, that once again we found ourselves hove to directly off the Horn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We hove up anchor to a jolly chanty, and sailed out of Yokohama harbour for San Francisco. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And so was our schooner Sophie Sutherland hove to off the Japan coast, near Cape Jerimo, on April 10, 1893. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The schooner, hove to, lurched and floundered through the sea, rolling her scuppers under and perpetually flooding the deck with icy salt water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Together we hove up the rope till the anchor I came in sight with the sturgeon line caught across one of the flukes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The third officer, the eighteen - year-old lad, fought well beside me, and saved me, so that, just before I fainted, he and I, between us, hove the bo's'n's carcass overside. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being Umm Hassane, she hove off to her neighborhood Amal office, with a “connected” relative she had browbeaten into coming with her, to complain. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

Late that afternoon we hove up anchor and got away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We passed a ship, two schooners, and a four-masted barkentine under the smallest of canvas, and at eleven o'clock, running up the spanker and jib, we hove her to, and in another hour we were beating back again against the aftersea under full sail to regain the sealing ground away to the westward. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mostly my husband has worked in male-dominated environments so he can get a bit excited when real live women hove into view. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Elsinore was hove to on the port tack at the time, under very short canvas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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