meaning of heave
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.
2. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
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.
4. To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
6. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
7. 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.
8. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
9. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
10. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or ones self, or to move something heavy.
11. 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.
12. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
13. An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering.
14. throwing something heavy with great effort; "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving
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