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Heave up   /hiv əp/   Listen
verb
Heave  v. i.  (past heaved or hove; past part. heaved or hove, formerly hoven; pres. part. heaving)  
1.
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. "And the huge columns heave into the sky." "Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap." "The heaving sods of Bunker Hill."
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." "The heaving plain of ocean."
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."
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.)
To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear.
To heave up, to vomit. (Low)





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"Heave up" Quotes from Famous Books



... toys—then the azure gleam of the sea and the boats dancing like bits of cork upon it,—then finally the plainer, broader view, wherein the earth with its woods and hills and rocky promontories appeared to heave up like a billow crowned with varying colours,—and so steadily, easily down to the pattern of grass and flowers from the centre of which the Palazzo d'Oro rose like a little white house for ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... of cavalry of the Grays and one of the Browns on the same road! They appeared so self-important, as if the sky would fall or the earth heave up to meet the sky if they got out of formation. I imagined each man a metal figure that fitted astride a metal horse of the kind that comes to children at Christmas time. They might better be engaged in brass-ring-snatching contests ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... he, "I find the anchor holds fast! I did suppose as how you would have slipt your cable, and changed your berth; but, I see, when a young fellow is once brought up by a pretty wench, he may man his capstans and viol block, if he wool; but he'll as soon heave up the Pike of Teneriffe, as bring his anchor aweigh! Odds heartlikins! had I known the young woman was Ned Gauntlet's daughter, I shouldn't have thrown out ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... close-skirted woodlands which the salt breath of sea-winds restrains from a richer luxuriance, on past springing knolls plumed with dark firs, and dimpling valleys mellow with the contrasted gold of the oak's young leafage. Above these, hills moulded on a grander scale heave up their broad shoulders to the sunlight, which is reflected in pale but tender hues of blue or violet or rose from their bare rock masses, or the slopes hardly less bare, which are swept by great winds, and browsed yet closer by climbing mountain sheep. At this and the other point ...
— Uppingham by the Sea - a Narrative of the Year at Borth • John Henry Skrine
... from St. Martha's Hill, And to the east and west, The downs heave up green shoulders, till The distance with its magic blue Envelops every other hue, And crest is ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker


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