Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hove

Hove , imperfect and past participle

imp. & past participle of Heave.
Collocations (1)
Hove short or Hove to , See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to, etc., under Heave.

Hove , verb, intransitive and transitive

To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. [Obsolete or Scottish] — Holland. Burns

Hove , intransitive verb

[Old English hoven. See Hover.]

To hover around; to loiter; to lurk. [Obsolete] — Gower