hoven
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of hoven
First recorded in 1545–55; special use of past participle of heave
Example Sentences
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Heave, heaved or hove, heaving, heaved or hoven.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The soldiers and marines, three hundred in number, landed, but were beaten back with a loss of eighteen killed and fifty wounded, "more by ye force of stones hoven from ye rocks than fier arms."
From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by Biddulph, J. (John)
The incision is made in the same place that the trocar is inserted for puncturing that organ in cases of hoven.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
For Stock.—Cabbages make good food for cows, but should be fed after milking; and frozen cabbages should never be fed in any considerable quantity, as they are liable to cause hoven or bloat.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
An intelligent farmer assures Dr. White that he has had forty sheep at a time hoven or blasted from feeding on vetches, and so swollen that he hardly knew which would drop first.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
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