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of Heave. Hove short, Hove to. See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to, etc., under Heave.

To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. Tennyson.

One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [Written also hoveller.] [Prov. Eng.] G. P. R. James.

in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also hovelling.]

Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight. Dryden.

The kestrel.

A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

In a hovering manner.

, and derivatives. See Behoove, & c.

Useful, or usefully. [Obs.]

Affected with hoove; as, hooven, or hoven, cattle.

cially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.

The same as Shovelboard.

h a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances. Shovel hat, a broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, - - worn by some clergy of the English Church. [Colloq.] -- Shovelspur (Zoöl.), a flat, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, -- u…

Having a broad, flat nose; as, the shovel-nosed duck, or shoveler.

Shoveler. [Prov. Eng.]

The shoveler.

metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny.

One who, or that which, shovels.