shove

present singular third person shoves · participle present shoving · past shoved · participle past shoved · obsolete participle past shoven

1. transitiveTo push, especially roughly or with force.

   The ship was anon shoven in the sea.

   1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], (please specify the book number), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC

   1 more example

   So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

2. intransitiveTo move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

   He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.

   1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

3. by ellipsiscard gamesTo make an all-in bet.
4. slangTo pass (counterfeit money).
5. To put hurriedly

plural shoves

1. A rough push.

   I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.

   1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput)

2. slangcard gamesAn all-in bet.
3. A forward movement of packed river-ice.

1. obsoletepastsimple past of shave