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Definition of "hove" [hove]

  • Past tense and past participle of heave. (verb-transitive)
  • Past tense and past participle of heave. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hove" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "'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."
  • "We "hove" our deep-sea-line by night, and the operation was very interesting, at least to me."