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verb

Shove v. t. (past & past part. shoved; pres. part. shoving)

To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.

To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle. "And shove away the worthy bidden guest." "He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants."

Shove v. i.

To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.

To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off. "He grasped the oar, eceived his guests on board, and shoved from shore."

Shove v. obs. P. p. of Shove.

noun

Shove n. The act of shoving; a forcible push. "I rested... and then gave the boat another shove."

Synonyms: See Thrust.

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"Shove" Quotes from Famous Books

... again. 'The way I came to know so much about her was this. Nobody, you see, took any notice or care of her. For the children were kept away with her in the old house, and my lady wasn't one to take trouble about anybody till once she stood in her way, and then she would just shove her aside or crush her like a spider, and ha' done with her.'—They have always been a proud and a fierce race, the Oldcastles, sir," said Weir, taking up the speech in his own person, "and there's been a deal o' breedin in-and-in amongst them, and that has kept up the worst of ...

— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald

... all this day, and at evening, having now been out fifty-four hours, we supposed ourselves to be rather more than half-way on the road to our haven. It fell calm in the night, and the next morning we got the wind right aft. This gave us a famous shove, for we sometimes made six and seven knots in the hour. The fair wind lasted thirty hours, during which time we must have made more than a hundred and fifty miles, it falling nearly calm about an hour before dawn, ...

— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... and give its name to, Trinity, we turned off to the right, and got into a large dense swamp. The thicket was so tangled and impenetrable that we experienced the greatest difficulty in forcing our way through it; we were often obliged to get into the water up to our middles and shove, whilst most of the party walked ...

— Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 • Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle

... really sure that I was needed. You know it's mighty hard telling these days when you stumble upon a damsel in distress whether a stranger's aid is welcome or not. If there's one thing I won't do it's shove myself forward when ...

— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory

... hot it does git," said Jake rising indignantly, as if the fire alone were to blame. "I must shove back the cider again or 't will bile over, spite of everything. But 't is called unwholesome to get a house full o' damp in the fall o' the year; 't will freeze an' thaw in the walls all winter. I must git me a new pipe if ...

— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

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