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verb (used with object)
1.
to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
2.
to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.
3.
Nautical.
a.
to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.
b.
to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!
4.
to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.
5.
EXPANDto cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.
verb (used without object)
8.
to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.
9.
to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.
10.
to vomit; retch.
11.
to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.
12.
EXPANDto pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
13.
to push, as on a capstan bar.
14.
COLLAPSENautical.
a.
to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
b.
(of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.
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noun
Verb phrases15.
an act or effort of heaving.
16.
a throw, toss, or cast.
17.
Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
18.
the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
19.
heaves, (used with a singular verb) Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.
20.
heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).
21.
heave out, Nautical.
a.
to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
b.
to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.
22.
Idiomsheave to,
a.
Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
b.
to come to a halt.
23.
heave ho (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.)
24.
heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon: The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.
25.
heave the lead. lead2 (def. 16).
Origin:
before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin to Latin capere to take
before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin to Latin capere to take
Related forms
heav·er, noun
heave·less, adjective
un·heaved, adjective
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Word Origin & History
heave
O.E. hebban "to lift, raise" (class VI strong verb; past tense hof, pp. hafen), from P.Gmc. *khafjanan (cf. O.N. hefja, Du. heffen, Ger. heben, Goth. hafjan), from PIE *kap- "seize;" related to O.E. habban "to hold, possess." Sense of "retch, make an effort to vomit" is first attested 1601. Nautical
EXPAND heave-ho was a chant in lifting.
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