Definition of "hove"

hove¹

/həʊv/

verb
third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
  Quotations
  As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before […].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
  Quotations
  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(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
4. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
5. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

hove²

/həʊv/

verb
third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved
1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
  Quotations
  Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  This will become increasingly urgent as next year's General Election hoves into view.
  2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3

hove³

/həʊv/

verb
1. (nautical) simple past and past participle of heave
2. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past and past participle of heave
  Quotations
  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.
  1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […]