Definition of "hoved" [hoved]

• Common misconstruction of hove. (verb)

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• "So he gazed across to the stream and pondered over this marvellous stone which 'hoved' always above the water, a sword set in it so that the pommel alone could be seen, 'and in the pomel therof were precyous stones wrought with subtyle letters of gold.'"
• "SMP4 micturation facilitation shorts seem also to make the pee act less interesting to wildlife - the pair of blackbird hens in the lady's 'before' pic have gone in the after although a skein of geese have hoved into view - probably too far away love, don't worry similarly the chipmunks or squirrels who were in the man's before pic taking a keen interest in his slashmaking have lost interest in the after pic."
• "Is it trivia that West-by-god-Virginia was hoved off from Virginia as the result of the Civil War?"