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heave

  [heev] verb, heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav⋅ing; noun
Use heave in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
2. to throw, esp. 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. to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.
6. to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.
7. to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!
–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. to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
13. to push, as on a capstan bar.
14. Nautical.
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.
–noun
15. 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.
—Verb phrases
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. heave to,
a. Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), esp. by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
b. to come to a halt.
—Idioms
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. lead 2 (def. 16).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME heven, var. (with -v- from pt. and ptp.) of hebben, OE hebban; c. G heben, ON hefja, Goth hafjan; akin to L capere to take

Related forms:
heaver, noun
heaveless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. elevate. See raise. 2. hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling. 11. surge, billow.
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heave   (hēv)   
v.   heaved, heav·ing, heaves

v.   tr.

  1. To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force: heaved the box of books onto the table. See Synonyms at lift.

    1. To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl: heave the shot; heaved a brick through the window.

    2. To throw or toss: heaved his backpack into the corner.

    3. To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable: hove the anchor up and set sail.

    4. To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling: hove the ship astern.

  3. To utter with effort or pain: heaved a groan of despair.

  4. To vomit (something).

  5. past tense and past participle hove (hōv) Nautical

    1. To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable: hove the anchor up and set sail.

    2. To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling: hove the ship astern.

  6. To make rise or swell: the wind heaving huge waves; an exhausted dog heaving its chest.

  7. Geology To displace or move (a vein, lode, or stratum, for example).

v.   intr.

  1. To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge: The sidewalk froze and heaved.

  2. To rise and fall in turn, as waves.

  3. To gag or vomit.

  4. past tense and past participle hove Nautical

    1. To move in a certain direction or to a specified position: The frigate hove alongside.

    2. To pull at or haul a rope or cable: The brig is heaving around on the anchor.

    3. To push at a capstan bar or lever.

n.  

  1. The effort of heaving.

  2. An act of hurling; a throw, especially when considered in terms of distance: a heave of 63 feet.

  3. Geology A horizontal dislocation, as of a rock stratum, at a fault.

  4. An upward movement.

  5. The act or an instance of gagging or vomiting.

  6. heaves (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A pulmonary disease of horses that is characterized by respiratory irregularities, such as coughing, and is noticeable especially after exercise or in cold weather.

Phrasal Verb(s):
heave to Nautical

  1. To turn a sailing ship so that its bow heads into the wind and the ship lies motionless except for drifting, in order to meet a storm: The brig hove to.

  2. To turn an engine-powered vessel in a similar situation so that its bow heads into the seas while proceeding at low speed.


Idiom(s):
heave into sight/viewTo rise or seem to rise over the horizon into view, as a ship.

[Middle English heven, from Old English hebban; see kap- in Indo-European roots.]
heav'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
heave [hiv]

  1. in.
    to empty one's stomach; to vomit. : He heaved and heaved and sounded like he was dying.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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 heave-ho was a chant in lifting.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: heave
Pronunciation: 'hEv
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: heaved; heav·ing
transitive senses
: VOMIT heaved his lunch> heave intransitive senses
: to undergo retching orvomiting
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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