Heave

/hiːv/

noun

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

  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, etc.

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

verb

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

    We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.

  2. To throw, cast.

    The cap'n hove the body overboard.

  3. To rise and fall.

    Her chest heaved with emotion.

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