Definitions for the word "heave" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
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, and the like.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v.
(-ving; past and past part. Heaved or esp. Naut. Hove) 1 lift or haul with great effort. 2 utter with effort (heaved a sigh). 3 colloq. Throw. 4 rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically. 5 naut. Haul by rope. 6 retch. n. Heaving. heave in sight come into view. Heave to esp. Naut. Bring or be brought to a standstill. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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