| Summary: | heave "_Hove out_" (pronounced "huv out") I first heard the phrase in Burin at the time of the Blue Wave disaster which, if memory serves me right, took place during the winter of 1960. My next-door neighbour, James Pitcher, was asked to go out with other members of his crew to look for bodies or signs of identification from the ill- fated ship. When he got back I asked him what caused the ship to sink. "Well, by," he said, "we all tinks she [reverse] hove out." Puzzled at the time, I later learned that it means "capsized." The ship had become top heavy with ice while proceeding from St. Pierre Bank to Burin and in the darkness of night keeled over and sank with all hands. = capsized Yes DNE-cit DICT CEN [PT] = capsized Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 3 Used I Newfoundland Folklore Survey Card, card is two-sided.
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