heave
IPA: hˈiv
noun
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- 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.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
verb
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (transitive, archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
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