Heave vs Hove - What's the difference?

In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between heave and hove

is that heave is (nautical) the measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time compare with pitch while hove is (nautical) (heave).

As verbs the difference between heave and hove

is that heave is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards while hove is to remain suspended in air, water etc; to float, to hover or hove can be (transitive|now|chiefly|dialectal) to raise; lift; hold up or hove can be (nautical) (heave).

As a noun heave

is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

heave

English

Verb

(archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

* Herrick

Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.

To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.

To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

* Alexander Pope

And the huge columns heave into the sky.

* Gray

where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap

* E. Everett

the heaving sods of Bunker Hill

(transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).

To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

The wind heaved the waves.

To rise and fall.

Her chest heaved with emotion.

* Prior

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves .

* Byron

the heaving plain of ocean

To utter with effort.

She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

* Shakespeare

The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.

To throw, cast.

The cap'n hove the body overboard.

(nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.

Heave up the anchor there, boys!

(ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

to heave the ship ahead

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To make an effort to vomit; to retch.

To vomit.

The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave .

To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

* Atterbury

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.

Derived terms

*heave in sight *)

Noun

(en noun)

An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.

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An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.

A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch.

hove

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Verb

(hov)

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.

To wait, linger.

Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes

To move (on) or (by).

To remain; delay.

To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Etymology 2

From (etyl) hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of ). More at (l).

Verb

(hov)

(transitive, now, chiefly, dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.

(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

(head)

(nautical) (heave)

(obsolete, or, dialectal) (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 English irregular simple past forms