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heave

[heev] verb, heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav⋅ing; noun
–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.
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.
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


heaver, noun
heaveless, adjective


1. elevate. See raise. 2. hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling. 11. surge, billow.
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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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