Definitions for heave

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Spelling: [heev]

IPA: /hiv/

Heave is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in heave (aeehv).

Definitions for heave

noun

1. an act or effort of heaving.
2. a throw, toss, or cast.
3. Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.
4. the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.
5. heaves, (used with a singular verb). Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.

Idioms

1. heave ho, (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up.)
2. heave in sight, to rise to view, as from below the horizon:
3. heave the lead. lead2 (def 16).

Verb phrases

1. heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).
2. heave out, Nautical. to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail). to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.
3. heave to, Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another. to come to a halt.

verb (used with object)

1. to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist:
2. to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence:
3. Nautical. to move into a certain position or situation: to move in a certain direction:
4. to utter laboriously or painfully:
5. to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion:
6. to vomit; throw up:
7. to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan:

verb (used without object)

1. to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements:
2. to breathe with effort; pant:
3. to vomit; retch.
4. to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge:
5. to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.
6. to push, as on a capstan bar.
7. Nautical. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.

Origin of heave

before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin

Examples for heave

You have never seen the mighty deep, and the storms that heave and swell in it.

But they need a fellow to heave mud, so they put up with him.

She was quite flushed, and her bodice, generally so still and lifeless, began to heave.

We get in line, and on the count of three, we heave a log onto our shoulders.

I'll heave up my commission and you pay her the fifteen hundred.

She had a deckload of it, and she'd heave it overboard every time the wind changed.

But Lomax can heave a small sigh of relief, at least for now: Legislative reform to the 1033 program will not happen in 2014.

The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.

Silently you assume positions of leadership, oh so subtly giving slackers the heave ho.

heave the hussy up to her anchor, Mr. Leach, when we will cast an eye to her moorings.