RE:RE:RE:RE:The sky is not falling after allPandora wrote: That's what I was going to say -- it's the old pirate terminology of seeing another ship on the horizon.
A fairly common journalistic variant of the correctly nautical ‘to heave into view’, meaning to come into view.
Eoganacht wrote: Not sure. Probably stuck in my head from some pirate movie when I was a kid.
Rumpl3StiltSkin wrote:
Hey Eoga,
'hoving' Is this Canadian English? I am not familiar with it? It sounds like a combo of heaving and moving, reminds me of my twenties when I used to drink a bit, he he.
Hove ... simple past tense or past participle of "heave" ... heave, hove, hove ... certain nautical uses, "hoving" is the present participle (had to go to the Oxford Dictionary to find this).
Practical examples
Automatically generated examples:
"After more than three weeks of campaigning, seemingly endless hours of debating of the issues and hundreds of babies kissed and cuddled, the finish line for hundreds of candidates in 39 constituencies around the country is hoving into view."
RTE, 7 February 2020
Entries with "hoving"
hove: …As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger. Thomas Malory, Le…
Nautical. - to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
- (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.
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