heave🔊

To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). +

To throw, cast. +

To rise and fall.

To utter with effort.

(nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable. +

(archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. +

(geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).

(archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

(nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. +

To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. +

(thieves) To rob; to steal from; to plunder. +

An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.

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.

A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.

An effort to vomit; retching.

(only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.

(cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory