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verb

Heave v. i. (past heaved or hove; past part. heaved or hove, formerly hoven; pres. part. heaving)

1.

To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. "And the huge columns heave into the sky." "Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap." "The heaving sods of Bunker Hill."

2.

To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle. "Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves." "The heaving plain of ocean."

3.

To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. "The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days."

4.

To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

To heave at.

(a)

To make an effort at.

(b)

To attack, to oppose. (Obs.)

To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear.

To heave up, to vomit. (Low)

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"Heave up" Quotes from Famous Books

... there was like to be a week of it, and that we should have to lie by and wait until it settled. About noon we sighted a dozen white lime-painted canoes bearing down on us, and Horn, the Dutchman, began to turn green as usual, and wanted me to heave up and clear out. I set on him and said I wanted the niggers to come alongside, an' hev a good look at us—they would see that we were a hard nut to crack if ...

— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke

... Squire Doolittle below, sir, commenced the major-domo. He has been standing off and on in the door-yard for the matter of a glass; and he has summat on his mind that he wants to heave up, dye see; but I tells him, says I, man, would you be coming aboard with your complaints, said I, when the judge has gotten his own child, as it were, out of the jaws of a lion? But damn the bit of manners ...

— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

... bluff, cheerful voice of Captain Spark. "Heave up the anchor, brace around the yards, for we've got a good wind, a free course ...

— Bob the Castaway • Frank V. Webster

... should do what an Englishman had not yet thought of doing;—secondly, if the world were not round, or some such shape, why should we see the small sails of a ship before her courses, or why should her truck heave up into the horizon before the hull? They say, moreover, that the world turns round, which is no doubt true; and it is just as true that its opinions turn round with it, which brings me to the object of my remark—yon fellow shows more of ...

— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper

... but I am quite sure I did not give the true hoarse, boatswain call of "A-a-ll ha-a-a-nds! up anchor, a-ho-oy!" In a short time every one was in motion, the sails loosed, the yards braced, and we began to heave up the anchor, which was our last hold upon Yankee land. I could take but little part in all these preparations. My little knowledge of a vessel was all at fault. Unintelligible orders were so rapidly ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

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