hove
see also: Hove
Pronunciation Verb
Hove
Proper noun
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see also: Hove
Pronunciation Verb
hove (hoves, present participle hoving; past and past participle hoved)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:
- As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:20.10?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter x], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:20.10?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter x], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
- (intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To remain; delay.
- (intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
hove (hoves, present participle hoving; past and past participle hoved)
- (transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
- (intransitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To rise.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- (nautical) Simple past tense and past participle of heave
- (obsolete or dialectal) Simple past tense and past participle of heave
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII:
- Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII:
Hove
Proper noun
- A town on the south coast of East Sussex, west of Brighton
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