[heev] 
verb, heaved or (especially Nautical
) hove; heav⋅ing; noun | 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.
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| 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! |
| 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.
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| 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.
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| 22. | heave to,
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| 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). |