hoove

English

Etymology

Related to heave and hove.

Noun

hoove (uncountable)

1. A disease in cattle consisting of inflammation of the stomach by gas, usually caused by eating too much green food.

Synonyms

• bloating
• drum belly
• meteorism
• tympanites, tympany
• wind dropsy

Derived terms

• hooven/hoven

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hoove”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)