Stoved vs Shoved - What's the difference?
stoved | shoved |
(stove)
A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
* , chapter=8
, title= A device for heating food, (UK ) a cooker.
(chiefly, UK) A hothouse (in which plants are kept).
* 1850 , M. A. Burnett, Plantae utiliores: or illustrations of useful plants, employed in the arts and medicine , part 8:
* 1854 , in The Horticultural Review and Botanical Magazine , volume 4, page 208:
(dated) A house or room artificially warmed or heated.
* Earl of Strafford
* Burton
To heat or dry, as in a stove.
To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
(stave)
(shove)
To push, especially roughly or with force.
*, chapter=12
, title= To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off .
* Garth
To make an all-in bet.
(label) To pass (counterfeit money).
A rough push.
* Jonathan Swift
(poker slang) An all-in bet.
As verbs the difference between stoved and shoved
is that stoved is (stove) while shoved is (shove).stoved
English
Verb
(head)stove
English
(Wikipedia)Etymology 1
From (etyl) and/or (etyl) stove (compare Dutch stoof), possibly from (etyl) , Norwegian stove and Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga).Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove .}}
- There existed only one specimen of this sacred tree in all Mexico, at least to the knowledge of the Mexicans; In spite, however, of the firmest convictions of the indivisibility of this tree — the Manitas, as it is commonly called — it has been propagated by cuttings, some of which are at this moment thriving in some of the larger stoves of our modern collectors.
- Let but these facts lie contrasted with the treatment they usually receive in the stoves of this country, and the reason why they never grow to any considerable size, attain to any degree of perfection, or flourish to any extent
- When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlour or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers.
- How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!
Derived terms
*Verb
(stov)- to stove feathers
- to stove orange trees
- (Francis Bacon)
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----shoved
English
Verb
(head)shove
English
Verb
(shov)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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}}
- He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
Derived terms
* shover * shove off * shove-it * push and shove * shove ha'pennyNoun
(en noun)- I rested and then gave the boat another shove .