To press or push along by the direct application of strength continuously exerted; particularly, to push (something) so as to make it slide or move along the surface of another body, either by the hand or by an instrument: as, to shove a table along the floor; to shove a boat into the water.
To prop; support.
To push roughly or without ceremony; press against; jostle.
To push; bring into prominence.
Synonyms To push, propel, drive. See thrust.
To press or push forward; push; drive; move along.
To move in a boat by pushing with a pole or oar which reaches to the bottom of the water or to the shore: often with off or from.
To germinate; shoot: also, to cast the first teeth.
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The act of shoving, pushing, or pressing by strength continuously exerted; a strong push, generally along or as if along a surface.
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The central woody part of the stem of flax or hemp; the boon.
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A forward movement of packed and piled ice; especially, such a movement in the St. Lawrence river at Montreal, caused in the early winter by the descent of the ground-ice from the Lachine Rapids above, which, on reaching the islands below the city, is packed, thus forming a dam.
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In billiards, the more common designation of the push. Degrees of strength have also given it other names. When it was foul in America to push so gently as to control the balls, the strenuous stroke was called Bowery in New York city, Germantown in Philadelphia, and timber-lick in the West.