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Heave up   /hiv əp/   Listen
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Heave  v. i.  (past heaved or hove; past part. heaved or hove, formerly hoven; pres. part. heaving)  
1.
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. "And the huge columns heave into the sky." "Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap." "The heaving sods of Bunker Hill."
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. "Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves." "The heaving plain of ocean."
3.
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. "The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days."
4.
To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
To heave at.
(a)
To make an effort at.
(b)
To attack, to oppose. (Obs.)
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 up" Quotes from Famous Books



... day after the fair. Had we reasoned the matter a little, we must soon have convinced ourselves that there was no ground for alarm to us at least; for the noise was like that of some one half stifled, and little likely to heave up from above him a six-feet-deep load of earth—to say nothing of the improbability of his being able to unscrew the coffin from the inside. Be that as it may, we cleared about a dozen of decent tombstones at three jumps—the fourth took ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... somewhat more slowly than you were frisking it even now on your own four nimble shanks. Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds." [Footnote: Yauds—horses; more particularly ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... though," said Kit, looking about. "If we only had a big pry here, we might heave up this top rock, and so get ...
— Left on Labrador - or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' • Charles Asbury Stephens


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