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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHOVE, v.t.
1. To push; to propel; to drive along by the direct application of strength without impulse; particularly, to push a body by sliding or causing it to move along the surface of another body, either by the hand or by an instrument; as, the shove a bottle along a table; to shove a table along the floor; to shove a boat along the water.
And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Milton.
Shoving back this earth on which I sit. Dryden.
2. To push; to press against.
He used to shove an elbow his fellow servants to get near his mistress
Arbuthnot.
To shove away, to push to a distance; to thrust off.
To shove by, to push away; to delay, or to reject; as, to shove by the hearing of a cause; or to shove by justice. [Not elegant.]
To shove off, to thrust or push away.
To shove down, to overthrow by pushing.
SHOVE, v.i.
1. To push or drive forward; to urge a course.
2. To push off; to move in a boat or with a pole; as, he shoved from shore.
To shove off, to move from shore by pushing with poles or oars.
SHOVE, n. The act of pushing or pressing against by strength, without a sudden impulse.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove" v
1: come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train" [syn: jostle, shove]
2: push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"
3: press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand" [syn: thrust, stuff, shove, squeeze]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (shoved; shoving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sc?fan to thrust away; akin to Old High German scioban to push and probably to Lithuanian skubti to hurry Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to push along 2. to push or put in a rough, careless, or hasty manner ; thrust 3. to force by other than physical means ; compel <shove a bill through the legislature> intransitive verb 1. to move by forcing a way <bargain hunters shoving up to the counter> 2. a. to move something by exerting force b. leave — usually used with off <shoved off for home> • shover noun II. noun Date: 14th century an act or instance of shoving ; a forcible push

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 tr. (also absol.) push vigorously; move by hard or rough pushing (shoved him out of the way). 2 intr. (usu. foll. by along, past, through, etc.) make one's way by pushing (shoved through the crowd). 3 tr. colloq. put somewhere (shoved it in the drawer). --n. an act of shoving or of prompting a person into action. Phrases and idioms: shove-halfpenny a form of shovelboard played with coins etc. on a table esp. in licensed premises. shove off 1 start from the shore in a boat. 2 sl. depart; go away (told him to shove off). Etymology: OE scufan f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shove Shove, n. The act of shoving; a forcible push. I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove. --Swift. Syn: See Thrust.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shove Shove, obs. p. p. of Shove. --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shove Shove (sh[u^]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shoved (sh[u^]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Shoving.] [OE. shoven, AS. scofian, fr. sc[=u]fan; akin to OFries. sk[=u]va, D. schuiven, G. schieben, OHG. scioban, Icel. sk[=u]fa, sk[=y]fa, Sw. skuffa, Dan. skuffe, Goth. afskiuban to put away, cast away; cf. Skr. kshubh to become agitated, to quake, Lith. skubrus quick, skubinti to hasten. [root]160. Cf. Sheaf a bundle of stalks, Scoop, Scuffle.] 1. 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. 2. To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle. And shove away the worthy bidden guest. --Milton. He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants. --Arbuthnot.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shove Shove, v. i. 1. To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling. 2. 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. --Garth.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spout Spout, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t.] 1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. --Addison. ``A conduit with three issuing spouts.'' --Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. --Pope. 2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle. 3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shoves, shoving, shoved) 1. If you shove someone or something, you push them with a quick, violent movement. He shoved her out of the way... He's the one who shoved me... She shoved as hard as she could. VERB: V n prep/adv, V n, V • Shove is also a noun. She gave Gracie a shove towards the house. N-COUNT 2. If you shove something somewhere, you push it there quickly and carelessly. We shoved a copy of the newsletter beneath their door... VERB: V n prep/adv 3. If you talk about what you think will happen if push comes to shove, you are talking about what you think will happen if a situation becomes very bad or difficult. (INFORMAL) If push comes to shove, if you should lose your case in the court, what will you do?... PHRASE: V inflects

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Push, propel. 2. Jostle, push aside, press against.

Moby Thesaurus

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