To push, especially roughly or with force.
So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all
To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
simple past of shave
A rough push.
I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.
An all-in bet.
From Middle English schoven, shoven, schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-. See also West Frisian skowe...
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A forward movement of packed river-ice.