heave

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heave /hiːv/

▶verb (past and past part. heaved or chiefly Nautical hove)

• 1 lift or haul (a heavy thing) with great effort.

  ■ informal throw (something heavy).

• 2 produce (a sigh).

• 3 rise and fall rhythmically or spasmodically.

• 4 make an effort to vomit; retch.

• 5 (heave to) Nautical come to a stop, especially by turning across the wind leaving the headsail backed.

  ■ (heave in sight or into view) come into view.

▶noun

• 1 an act of heaving.

• 2 (heaves) another term for COPD in horses.

• 3 Geology a sideways displacement in a fault.

– derivatives
heaver noun.

– origin OE hebban, of Gmc origin.