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HEAVE
- to lift forcefully [v HEAVED, HEAVES, HEAVING, HOVE]
- to rise to view, as from below the horizon
- elevate
- row cast heaving rocks
- cause to swell or rise
- displace (as a rock stratum) especially by a fault
- utter with obvious effort or with a deep breath heave a sigh of relief
- bor struggle
- tch
- rise and fall rhythmically
- move a ship in a specified direction or manner
- move in an indicated way the ship hove into view
- rise or become thrown or raised up
- to careen (a vessel)
- to lift with effort
- to lift and throw with effort
- to rise and fall rhythmically
- to retch
- act of heaving
- (an exclamation used by sailors, as when heaving the anchor up)
- to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail)
- to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it
- to stop the headway of (a vessel), esp. by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another
- to come to a halt