Shove
- p. p. of Shove.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
- v. i. To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
- v. i. To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
- n. The act of shoving; a forcible push.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.