— heaver , n. — heaveless , adj.
/heev/ , v. , heaved or ( esp. Naut. ) hove; heaving; n.
v.t.
1. to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.
2. to throw, esp. to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.
3. Naut.
a. to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.
b. to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!
4. to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.
5. to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.
6. to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.
7. to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!
v.i.
8. to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.
9. to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.
10. to vomit; retch.
11. to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.
12. to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
13. to push, as on a capstan bar.
14. Naut.
a. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
b. (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.
15. heave down , Naut. to careen (a vessel).
16. heave ho (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.)
17. heave in sight , to rise to view, as from below the horizon: The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.
18. heave out , Naut.
a. to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
b. to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.
19. heave the lead . See lead 2 (def. 12).
20. heave to ,
a. Naut. to stop the headway of (a vessel), esp. by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
b. to come to a halt.
n.
21. an act or effort of heaving.
22. a throw, toss, or cast.
23. Geol. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
24. the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
25. heaves , ( used with a sing. v. ) Also called broken wind . Vet. Pathol. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.
[ bef. 900; ME heven, var. (with -v- from pt. and ptp.) of hebben, OE hebban; c. G heben, ON hefja, Goth hafjan; akin to L capere to take ]
Syn. 1. elevate. See raise. 2. hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling. 11. surge, billow.