heave

  • (noun): An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
  • (noun): An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
  • (noun): A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
  • (noun): The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
  • (noun): An effort to vomit; retching.
  • (noun): (only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
  • (noun): A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
  • (verb): To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
  • (verb): To throw, cast.
  • (verb): To rise and fall.
  • (verb): To utter with effort.
  • (verb): To pull up with a rope or cable.
  • (verb): To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
  • (verb): To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
  • (verb): To displace (a vein, stratum).
  • (verb): To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
  • (verb): To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
  • (verb): To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
  • (verb): To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
  • (verb): To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
  • We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.
  • The cap'n hove the body overboard.
  • Her chest heaved with emotion.
  • She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
  • Heave up the anchor there, boys!