Dicţionar englez-român

HOVE

Traducere în limba română

hove past şi part. trec. de la to heave.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

We hove to and ran away, hove to and ran away, and ever astern the struggling patch of sail tossed skyward and fell into the rushing valleys.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

With the same good fighting man he served at the Nile, where the men of his command sponged and rammed and trained until, when the last tricolour had come down, they hove up the sheet anchor and fell dead asleep upon the top of each other under the capstan bars.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Up with the jib, reef the tops'l halliards, helm hard alee, and man the guns!' roared the captain, as a Portuguese pirate hove in sight, with a flag black as ink flying from her foremast. 'Go in and win, my hearties!' says the captain, and a tremendous fight began. Of course the British beat—they always do.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

We had been loafing along, till now, our sails shaking half the time and spilling the wind; and twice, for short periods, we had been hove to.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

When we hove to, a hasty though orderly confusion reigned.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

This would not do for a draw-knife, so he laid hold of the running part, hove taut, and made fast.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Back we held, two miles and more to windward of the struggling cockle-shell, when the flying jib was run down and the schooner hove to.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Still we increased our lead, and when the boat had dropped astern several miles we hove to and waited.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Late that afternoon we hove up anchor and got away.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I obeyed, and the two brutes picked up the senseless man like a sack of rubbish and hove him clear up the companion stairs, through the narrow doorway, and out on deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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