hove

See also: Hove and ho ve

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həʊv/
• IPA^(key): /hoʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hufōną (“to house, lodge”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”). Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel.

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:

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

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
     :

     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

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
4. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
5. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Alternative forms

• huve, huff, houf (Scotland)

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven (“to heave”)). More at heave.

Verb

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
   • 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. (nautical) simple past and past participle of heave
2. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past and past participle of heave
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 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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Middle Dutch

Noun

hōve

1. inflection of hof:
   1. dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/genitive plural