hove

[ hohv ]

/ hoʊv /

verb

simple past tense and past participle of heave.

Nearby words

houting, houyhnhnm, hov, hov lane, hovawart, hove, hovea, hovel, hoven, hover, hover fly

Definition for hove (2 of 2)

heave

[ heev ]

/ hiv /

verb (used with object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.

to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.

Nautical.

to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.
to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!

to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.

to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.

to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.

to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!

verb (used without object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.

to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.

to vomit; retch.

to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.

to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.

to push, as on a capstan bar.

Nautical.

to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
(of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.

noun

an act or effort of heaving.

a throw, toss, or cast.

Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.

the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.

heaves, (used with a singular verb) Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.

Verb Phrases

heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).

heave out, Nautical.

to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.

heave to,

Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
to come to a halt.

Origin of heave

before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin to Latin capere to take

SYNONYMS FOR heave

1 elevate. See raise.

2 hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling.

11 surge, billow.

Related forms

heav·er, nounheave·less, adjectiveun·heaved, adjective

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Examples from the Web for hove

She hove to, and the next moment her guns thundered thirteen times.
The Story of John Paul Jones|Chelsea Curtis Fraser
One night he carried up some of the best pieces and hove them overboard.
Peter Trawl|W. H. G. Kingston
We've come to sport with you, my young friends, for a while, because our beloved house-master has hove us out of our diggin's.
Stalky & Co.|Rudyard Kipling
The ship, hove too, was off her course; but when she filled, she brought the wreck right abreast of the port-hole in my cabin.
The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 1 of 3|William Clark Russell

At last it hove into sight, moving at a hesitating gait along the slippery rails.
Molly Brown's Sophomore Days|Nell Speed

British Dictionary definitions for hove (1 of 3)

hove

/ (həʊv) /

verb

mainly nautical a past tense and past participle of heave

British Dictionary definitions for hove (2 of 3)

Hove

/ (həʊv) /

noun

a town and coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex. Pop: 72 335 (2001)

British Dictionary definitions for hove (3 of 3)

heave

/ (hiːv) /

verb heaves, heaving or heaved or mainly nautical hove

(tr) to lift or move with a great effort

(tr) to throw (something heavy) with effort

to utter (sounds, sighs, etc) or breathe noisily or unhappilyto heave a sigh

to rise and fall or cause to rise and fall heavily

(past tense and past participle hove) nautical

to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or positionto heave in sight
(intr) (of a vessel) to pitch or roll

(tr) to displace (rock strata, mineral veins, etc) in a horizontal direction

(intr) to retch

noun

the act or an instance of heaving

a fling

the horizontal displacement of rock strata at a fault

Derived Forms

heaver, noun

Word Origin for heave

Old English hebban; related to Old Norse hefja, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German heffen to raise, Latin capere to take, Sanskrit kapatī two hands full

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hove

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Definition for hove (2 of 2)

heave

verb (used with object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

verb (used without object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

noun

Verb Phrases

Origin of heave

SYNONYMS FOR heave

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Examples from the Web for hove

British Dictionary definitions for hove (1 of 3)

hove

verb

British Dictionary definitions for hove (2 of 3)

Hove

noun

British Dictionary definitions for hove (3 of 3)

heave

verb heaves, heaving or heaved or mainly nautical hove

noun

Derived Forms

Word Origin for heave