hoves

Verb (1)

hove (third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
   • As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait, linger.
   • 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...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To move on or by.
4. (dialectal, intransitive) To remain; delay.
5. (dialectal, intransitive) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Verb (2)

hove (third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved)

1. (dialectal, transitive) To raise; lift; hold up.

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