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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HEAVE, v.t. heev. pret. heaved, or hove; pp. heaved, hove, formerly hoven. [Gr. to breathe.]
1. To lift; to raise; to move upward.
So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay,
Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence
Had ris'n, or heaved his head.
2. To cause to swell.
The glittering finny swarms
That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores.
3. To raise or force from the breast; as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.
4. To raise; to elevate; with high.
One heaved on high.
5. To puff; to elate.
6. To throw; to cast; to send; as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen; as, to heave the lead.
7. To raise by turning a windlass; with up; as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,
8. To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers. Hence the order, to heave away.
To heave ahead, to draw ship forwards.
To heave astern, to cause to recede; to draw back.
To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side; to careen.
To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails.
To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind.
To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.
To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion.
To heave taught, to turn a capstern, etc. till the rope becomes straight. [See Taught and Tight.]
To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.
To heave up, to relinquish; [so to throw up;] as, to heave up a design. [Vulgar.]
HEAVE, v.i. heev. To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,
1. To pant; to breathe with labor or pain; as, he heaves for breath.
2. To keck; to make an effort to vomit.
3. To rise in billows, as the sea; to swell.
4. To rise; to be lifted; as, a ship heaves.
5. To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost.
To heave in sight, to appear; to make its first appearance; as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached.
We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.
HEAVE, n. heev. A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward.
None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them.
1. A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast.
These profound heaves.
2. An effort to vomit.
3. An effort to rise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea" [syn: heave, heaving]
2: (geology) a horizontal dislocation
3: the act of lifting something with great effort [syn: heave, heaving]
4: an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting; "a bad case of the heaves" [syn: heave, retch]
5: the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, raise, heave]
6: throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes" [syn: heave, heaving] v
1: utter a sound, as with obvious effort; "She heaved a deep sigh when she saw the list of things to do"
2: throw with great effort
3: rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" [syn: billow, surge, heave]
4: lift or elevate [syn: heave, heave up, heft, heft up]
5: move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position; "The vessel hove into sight"
6: breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" [syn: pant, puff, gasp, heave]
7: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave, buckle, warp]
8: make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit [syn: gag, heave, retch]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (heaved or hove; heaving) Etymology: Middle English heven, from Old English hebban; akin to Old High German hevan to lift, Latin capere to take Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. obsolete elevate 2. lift, raise <heaved the trunk onto the table> 3. throw, cast <heaving rocks> 4. a. to cause to swell or rise b. to displace (as a rock stratum) especially by a fault 5. to utter with obvious effort or with a deep breath <heave a sigh of relief> 6. haul, draw intransitive verb 1. labor, struggle 2. retch 3. a. to rise and fall rhythmically b. pant 4. a. pull, push <heaving on a rope> b. to move a ship in a specified direction or manner c. past usually hove to move in an indicated way <the ship hove into view> 5. to rise or become thrown or raised up Synonyms: see lift • heaver noun II. noun Date: circa 1571 1. a. an effort to heave or raise b. hurl, cast 2. an upward motion ; rising; especially a rhythmical rising 3. horizontal displacement especially by the faulting of a rock 4. plural but singular or plural in construction chronic pulmonary emphysema of the horse resulting in difficult expiration, heaving of the flanks, and a persistent cough

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. (past and past part. heaved or esp. Naut. hove) 1 tr. lift or haul (a heavy thing) with great effort. 2 tr. utter with effort or resignation (heaved a sigh). 3 tr. colloq. throw. 4 intr. rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically. 5 tr. Naut. haul by rope. 6 intr. retch. --n. 1 an instance of heaving. 2 Geol. a sideways displacement in a fault. 3 (in pl.) a disease of horses, with laboured breathing. Phrases and idioms: heave-ho a sailors' cry, esp. on raising the anchor. heave in sight Naut. or colloq. come into view. heave to esp. Naut. bring or be brought to a standstill. Derivatives: heaver n. Etymology: OE hebban f. Gmc, rel. to L capere take

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fault Fault, n. 1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the circuit. 2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated structure resulting from such slipping. Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have moved is called the fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a vertical fault; when its inclination is such that the present relative position of the two masses could have been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane, of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a normal, or gravity, fault. When the fault plane is so inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up relatively, the fault is then called a reverse (or reversed), thrust, or overthrust, fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault is then called a horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation measured on the fault plane and in the direction of movement is the displacement; the vertical displacement is the throw; the horizontal displacement is the heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the fault plane with a horizontal plane is the trend of the fault. A fault is a strike fault when its trend coincides approximately with the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal plane); it is a dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike; an oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike. Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel faults are sometimes called step faults and sometimes distributive faults.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heave Heave, v. t. [imp. Heaved, or Hove; p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven; p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.] [OE. heven, hebben, As. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heven, Icel. h["a]fva, Dan. h[ae]ve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. ? handle. Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, haft, Receipt.] 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. One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. --Shak. Note: Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense. Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand. --Herrick. 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. The wretched animal heaved forth such groans. --Shak. 5. To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores. --Thomson. To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor. To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables. To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her. To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion. To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly. To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heave Heave, n. 1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy. After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves. --Hudibras. 2. 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. There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate. --Shak. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. --Dryden. 3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Heave Heave (h[=e]v), v. i. 1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. --Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. --Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. --E. Everett. 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. --Prior. The heaving plain of ocean. --Byron. 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. --Atterbury. 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.] --Fuller. To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. To heave up, to vomit. [Low]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(heaves, heaving, heaved) 1. If you heave something heavy or difficult to move somewhere, you push, pull, or lift it using a lot of effort. It took five strong men to heave the statue up a ramp and lower it into place... VERB: V n prep/adv • Heave is also a noun. It took only one heave to hurl him into the river. N-COUNT 2. If something heaves, it moves up and down with large regular movements. His chest heaved, and he took a deep breath. VERB: V 3. If you heave, or if your stomach heaves, you vomit or feel sick. My stomach heaved and I felt sick. VERB: V 4. If you heave a sigh, you give a big sigh. Mr Collier heaved a sigh and got to his feet. VERB: V n 5. to heave a sigh of relief: see sigh

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Lift, hoist, raise, elevate, raise up. 2. Breathe, force from the breast, raise, exhale. 3. Throw, toss, hurl, send, fling. II. v. n. 1. Pant. 2. Swell, dilate, expand. 3. Retch, keck, try to vomit. 4. Struggle, strive, make an effort. III. n. 1. Swell, rising, swelling, heaving. 2. Retching, effort to vomit. 3. Struggle, striving, effort. 4. Fling, throw.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To rob. To heave a case; to rob a house. To heave a bough; to rob a booth. Cant.

Foolish Dictionary

To raise. (See HEAVEN)

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