hove

present singular third person hoves · participle present hoving · participle past hoved · past hoved · alternative huve · alternative huff · alternative houf

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.

   As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before[…].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. intransitiveobsoleteTo wait, linger.

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   Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII

3. intransitiveobsoleteTo move on or by.
4. dialectalintransitiveTo remain; delay.
5. dialectalintransitiveTo remain stationary (usually on horseback).

present singular third person hoves · participle present hoving · participle past hoved · past hoved

1. dialectaltransitiveTo raise; lift; hold up.
2. dialectalintransitiveTo rise.

   This will become increasingly urgent as next year's General Election hoves into view.

   2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3

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   Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   There was nothing else to do, and he was doing it to the best of his ability - having, in fact, fallen into a trance of admiration before a large meerschaum - when MacQuibble hove in sight on his way to the Life Class at the Gallery.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 150

1. participlepastnauticalsimple past and past participle of heave
2. dialectalobsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of heave

   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.

   1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

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   ‘An’ th’ dumblasted rascal hed to go an’ git gay wi’ June. Dick turned to an’ hammered seven hells out o’ his mug an’ hove him out on deck—’

   1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 274

1. A town in the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of East Sussex, England, west of Brighton (OS grid ref TQ2804).