heave
verb (used with object)
to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence.
have hove
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present perfectof heave.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I might have hove her to, but the first time the breeze hauled easterly she’d have gone up on the beach or among the ice with us.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss
They cast anything but pleasant looks at their captors, and it was very evident that if they had dared they would have hove them quickly overboard again.
From Sunshine Bill by William Henry Giles Kingston
I might have hove to and taken a chance, considering who you was.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
In two hours the vessel was putting her lee rail nearly under, and a single sharp squall would have hove her down, so the hands were called up to reef her.
From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by James Runciman
I have hove all the old Shoes I can find for Joy; and all my Neighbours rejoice with me.
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
