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Shove
Definitions
- 1 A rough push.
"I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove."
- 2 the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) wordnet
- 3 An all-in bet. slang
- 4 A forward movement of packed river-ice.
- 1 To push, especially roughly or with force. transitive
"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"
- 2 simple past of shave form-of, obsolete, past
- 3 push roughly wordnet
- 4 To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off. intransitive
"He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore."
- 5 come into rough contact with while moving wordnet
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- 6 To make an all-in bet.
- 7 press or force wordnet
- 8 To pass (counterfeit money). slang
- 9 To put hurriedly
Etymology
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, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
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, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
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