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hoven to

hoven to is the past participle of heave to.

Meaning of heave to

Verb

heave to (third-person singular simple present heaves to, present participle heaving to, simple past heaved to or hove to, past participle heaved to or hove to or hoven to)

  1. (intransitive) To cause (one's vessel) to become dead in the water by pointing the bows directly towards the wind.
  2. (intransitive) To come to a halt.

Questions about hoven to

What is hoven to the past participle of?
Hoven to is the past participle of heave to.

Words near hoven to in the dictionary

  1. hoven
  2. hoven in sight
  3. hoven in view
  4. hoven into sight
  5. hoven into view
  6. hoven to
  7. Hovenden
  8. Hovens
  9. hover
  10. hover board
  11. hover boards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoven to (page history and authors); heave to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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