Hove

Etymology 1
From hoven:, from  *undefined:, from, from , from. Cognate with hovia:,  hoven:. Related to hof:. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
 * 2)  To wait, linger.
 * 3) *1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:
 * Sir Launcelot saw thys, as he hoved in the lytyll leved wood [...].
 * 1)  To move on: or by:.

Etymology 2
From hoven:, alteration (due to hove:, hoven:, past tense and past participle of heven:). More at.

Verb

 * 1)  To raise, lift.
 * 2)  To rise.
 * 3) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
 * Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

Etymology 3
Inflected forms.

Verb
hove


 * 1) * 1884:, , Chapter VIII
 * Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.
 * 1) * 1884:, , Chapter VIII
 * Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.

Synonyms

 * heaved

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