Hove

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. [Obs. or Scot.] Holland. Burns.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To hover around; to loiter; to lurk. [Obs.] Gower.

Part of speech: participle (p.)

of Heave. Hove short, Hove to. See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to, etc., under Heave.