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Heave (h&ē;v), v. t. [imp. Heaved (h&ē;vd), or Hove (h&ō;v); p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven (h&ō;"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.] [OE. heven, hebben, AS. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heben, Icel. hefja, Sw. h&ä;fva, Dan. hæve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. kw`ph handle. Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, Haft, Receipt.] 1. 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.
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One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.
Shak.
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&hand_; Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.
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Here a little child I stand,
Heaving up my either hand.
Herrick.
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2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
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3. 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.
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4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
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The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
Shak.
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5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
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The glittering, finny swarms
That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.
Thomson.
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To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. -- To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her. -- To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. -- To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly. -- To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). -- To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. -- To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. -- To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.
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Heave (h&ē;v), v. i. 1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
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And the huge columns heave into the sky.
Pope.
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Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
Gray.
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The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.
E. Everett.
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2. 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.
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Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
Prior.
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The heaving plain of ocean.
Byron.
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3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
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The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.
Atterbury.
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4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
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To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] Fuller. -- To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. -- To heave up, to vomit. [Low]
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Heave, n. 1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
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After many strains and heaves
He got up to his saddle eaves.
Hudibras.
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2. 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.
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There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves,
You must translate.
Shak.
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None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them.
Dryden.
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3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
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