Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shove"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shove \Shove\, n.
The act of shoving; a forcible push.
I rested . . . and then gave the boat another shove.
--Swift.
Syn: See {Thrust}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shove \Shove\, obs.
p. p. of {Shove}. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shove
n : 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}]
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}, {squeeze}]
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