How to use hove in a sentence
At this point, Titanic's partner hove into view, and Titanic hailed him.
"Which has advanced——" That wave hove green water over the funnel.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingThe parliamentary borough, which includes the parish of hove, returns two members.
Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)So said so done; and the 142 ships of Harald were hove out of berth, and King Magnus put his ships into their place.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri Sturluson
That night about ten we hove in sight of the lights of a town away down in a left-hand bend.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for hove (1 of 2)
/ (həʊv) /
mainly nautical a past tense and past participle of heave
British Dictionary definitions for Hove (2 of 2)
/ (həʊv) /
a town and coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex. Pop: 72 335 (2001)
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