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At least for the hover, and the low-speed flight.

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  1. intransitive verb To remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air: gulls hovering over the waves.
  2. intransitive verb To remain or linger in or near a place: hovering around the speaker's podium.
  3. intransitive verb To remain in an uncertain state; waver: hovered between anger and remorse.
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  • At least for the hover, and the low-speed flight. —  Paul Moller on the Skycar
  • Oskar told the skimmer to hover, then came over and knelt beside us. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 01 - July 1997
  • Although well lit, the inside of the hover was not as bright as it had been outside. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Now the hover was cruising through the clouds at an altitude of 5,700 meters, according to the tell on the bulkhead. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • As he flopped beside Cape onto one of the chairs that Memsen had caused to flow from the deck of the hover, the hand-tell squawked. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English hoveren, frequentative of hoven.

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  1. from Middle English hoveren (rare), wait, linger; freq. of hoven, wait: see hove.
  2. A variant of hove, with reference to the related hover, v.
 

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