different between rove vs hove

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).

Verb

rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:

     And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]

2. (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.

3. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
4. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.

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5. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
6. To draw through an eye or aperture.
7. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
8. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Derived terms

• rover
• roved
• roving

Related terms

• reeve

Translations

Noun

rove (plural roves)

1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
3. The act of wandering; a ramble.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

rove

1. simple past tense of rive
2. simple past tense of reeve

Anagrams

• -vore, Over, Vore, over, over-, vore

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

rove

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of roven

Anagrams

• over, Voer, voer

Finnish

Noun

rove

1. Small container made of birch bark.

Declension

Synonyms

• tuokkonen

Anagrams

• vero

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ho?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from Proto-Germanic *huf?n? (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *huf? (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”). Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:

     As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before […].

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
4. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
5. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Alternative forms

• huve, huff, houf (Scotland)

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven (“to heave”)). More at heave.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

hove

1. (nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
2. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of heave
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII:

     Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.

Synonyms

• heaved

Middle Dutch

Noun

h?ve

1. inflection of hof:
   1. dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/genitive plural

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English h?fe.

Noun

h?ve (uncountable)

1. ground-ivy

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ho.??/

Etymology 1

Verb

hove

1. supine of hevja

Participle

hove

1. neuter of hoven

Adjective

hove

1. neuter of hoven

Etymology 2

Noun

hove n (definite singular hovet, indefinite plural hove, definite plural hova)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hove/

Noun

hove

1. dative singular of hof

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN