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[…].
To raise; lift; hold up.
simple past and past participle of heave
A town in the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of East Sussex, England, west of Brighton (OS grid ref TQ2804).
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 *hufōną (“to house, lodge”),...
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