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Definition heave

Etymology

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to take up, lift”) (compare West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen, German heben, Danish hæve), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p- (compare Albanian kap (“I grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capi? (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek ????? (kápt?, “to gulp down”), ???? (k?p?, “handle”)).

Verb

heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or hove, past participle heaved or hove or hoven or heft)

1. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
2. (transitive) To throw, cast.
3. (intransitive) To rise and fall.
4. (transitive) To utter with effort.
5. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
6. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
7. (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
8. (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
9. (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
10. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
11. (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
12. (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
13. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

Noun

heave (plural heaves)

1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
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, etc.
3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
4. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
5. An effort to vomit; retching.
6. (Can we verify this sense?) Broken wind in horses.
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