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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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Etymology of 'Shove'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shove" Quotes from Famous Books

... the train started to move on again. Luckily those trains never went very fast, but it was a funny sight to see two Tommies almost throttling the goat in their efforts to drag it along, pursued by several F.A.N.Y.s (to make the pace), and give it a final shove up ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... to eat!" he replied. "Wo ho, Bonyparty, shove yer head through. That's the way. Not give him enough to eat, my lad! Lor' bless you, the more he eats the thinner he gets. He finds the work too hard for him grinding his oats, for he's got hardly any teeth ...

— Brownsmith's Boy - A Romance in a Garden • George Manville Fenn

... a lark it will be if we take him prisoner all by ourselves! We can tie him up with these sheets in no time. Now I tell you how we will work it. As soon as we see just how he is lying, I will shove the bed off him, and you lam him good and plenty with that dictionary. Soon as you do that I will throw all the blankets and bedclothes and the mattress on him and then we will sit on him and ...

— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb

... 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 them. ...

— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald

... naughty sticks," said Archie, giving the crookedest a shove. "They shan't go into my ...

— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge

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