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Definition of Shoved
1. shove [v] - See also: shove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoved
Literary usage of Shoved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"First he helped Dinah up the tower stairs, more dead than alive, and shoved her
through the aperture; then he passed in the infant, and finally entered ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
""He shoved himself to them as they strove, and would have set them at one again,"
or, .... shoved ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1864)
"... percussion powder, are used for priming, one being shoved forward upon the
nipple by the movement of the lock, or percussion caps are used if preferred. ..."
4. A Narrative of Excursions, Voyages, and Travels, Performed at Different by George Rapelje (1834)
"I had to drive them out of the boat after it had shoved off from the shore.
I was obliged to take a firm stand of courage, by taking the sailing pole, ..."
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