Definitions for Hove

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Hove hove

Spelling: [hohv]

IPA: /hoʊv/

Hove is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Hove (ehov).

Definitions for Hove

noun

1. an act or effort of heaving.
2. a throw, toss, or cast.
3. Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
4. the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
5. heaves, (used with a singular verb). Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of heave.

Idioms

1. heave ho, (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.)
2. heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon:
3. heave the lead. lead2 (def 16).

Verb phrases

1. heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).
2. heave out, Nautical. to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail). to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.
3. heave to, Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another. to come to a halt.

verb (used with object)

1. to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist:
2. to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence:
3. Nautical. to move into a certain position or situation: to move in a certain direction:
4. to utter laboriously or painfully:
5. to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion:
6. to vomit; throw up:
7. to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan:

verb (used without object)

1. to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements:
2. to breathe with effort; pant:
3. to vomit; retch.
4. to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge:
5. to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
6. to push, as on a capstan bar.
7. Nautical. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.

Origin of Hove

before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin

Examples for Hove

Our head was then put off the land, and we hove to, to wait for the tug.

Off the Island of Fuego, we hove to, and found we could get no water.

We carved off a supply from both, and saved the skins, and hove the rest overboard.

Course he hove out some of his cheap talk, but it didn't amount to nothin'.

Sim had stooped to pick up the quarter the Prince of Wales had hove at him.

We now hove clear of the bank, restowed the cargo, and made sail for Batavia.

I entered the first tavern that hove insight, he promising to “stay about.”

If 'twas one of the hands I guess likely she'd have hove him overboard.

hove to, he would be cramped for room, with three big islands on his lee.

You've hove in that 'especially with me' and I don't like it.