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This entry needs cleaning up. The style of the definitions is unusual for Wiktionary and so it should probably be checked to make sure it isn't a copyvio from somewhere. Thryduulf 00:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
- I've reworked the verb fairly thoroughly. Widsith 17:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
heave to
[edit]I was not seeing the nautical usage "heave to" ages ago when I first endeavoured to edit this page.
Example: The ship hove to.
Varlaam (talk) 05:05, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: broken wind in horses --Gibraltar Rocks (talk) 20:44, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- heaves seems a lot more common for this. (We have it there, too, with a clearer definition: "A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.") Equinox ◑ 20:49, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- The singular form may be seen in attributive use, as in “heave line”. --Lambiam 08:39, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
- This challenge came from perennial troll Wonderfool. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't apply our usual standards but since (as I showed) heaves has the meaning, it's clearly not some random made-up sense we'd delete. Well at least we could do see also heaves at heave, blah blah. Equinox ◑ 22:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- cited. At first I thought this only occurred in "heave line", but I found a couple of instances of "heave horse", and one of "heave remedy". I was unable to find anything other than an attributive use, however. Kiwima (talk) 20:26, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 01:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
(intransitive) : appear
[edit](intransitive) : to become visible, like a ship over the horizon Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight.
--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:23, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Heaved vs hove
[edit]According to Garner, the past form hove is archaic except in the nautical phrases heave into view/sight “to become visible”. JMGN (talk) 18:49, 1 November 2024 (UTC)