to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist

to heave a heavy ax.

to throw, esp. to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence

to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.

Nautical .

to move into a certain position or situation

to heave a vessel aback.

to move in a certain direction

Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!

to utter laboriously or painfully

to heave a sigh.

to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion

to heave one's chest.

to vomit; throw up

He heaved his breakfast before noon.

to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan

Heave the anchor cable!

to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements

The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.

to breathe with effort; pant

He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.

to vomit; retch.

to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge

The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.

to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.

to push, as on a capstan bar.

Nautical .

to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation

heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.

(of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.

an act or effort of heaving.

a throw, toss, or cast.

Geology . the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.

the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.

heaves, ( used with a singular verb ) Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology . a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing. ?

heave down, Nautical . to careen (a vessel).

heave out, Nautical .

to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).

to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.

heave to,

Nautical . 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. ?

heave ho (an exclamation used by sailors

as when heaving the anchor up.)

heave in sight, to rise to view

as from below the horizon

The ship hove in sight as dawn began to break.

heave the lead. lead 2 ( def. 16 ) .