Crossword clues for heaving
heaving
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heave \Heave\ (h[=e]v), v. t. [imp. Heaved (h[=e]vd), or Hove (h[=o]v); p. p. Heaved, Hove, formerly Hoven (h[=o]"v'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Heaving.] [OE. heven, hebben, AS. hebban; akin to OS. hebbian, D. heffen, OHG. heffan, hevan, G. heben, Icel. hefja, Sw. h[aum]fva, Dan. h[ae]ve, Goth. hafjan, L. capere to take, seize; cf. Gr. kw`ph handle. Cf. Accept, Behoof, Capacious, Forceps, Haft, Receipt.]
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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below.
--Shak.Note: Heave, as now used, implies that the thing raised is heavy or hard to move; but formerly it was used in a less restricted sense.
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand.
--Herrick. To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.
To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead.
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To raise or force from the breast; to utter with effort; as, to heave a sigh.
The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
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To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom.
The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon our shores.
--Thomson.To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.
To heave a ship ahead (Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables.
To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side; to careen her.
To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.
To heave about (Naut.), to put about suddenly.
To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable).
To heave in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack.
To heave out a sail (Naut.), to unfurl it.
To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight.
To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line.
To heave the log. (Naut.) See Log.
To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.
Heaving \Heav"ing\, n.
A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.
--Addison.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
(context informal English) crowded with people n. An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved v
(present participle of heave English)
WordNet
adj. rising and falling alternately as in waves; "the heaving waves in the storm-tossed sea"; "the exhausted dog's heaving chest"
n. an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling); "the heaving of waves on a rough sea" [syn: heave]
breathing heavily (as after exertion) [syn: panting]
the act of lifting something with great effort [syn: heave]
throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes" [syn: heave]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "heaving".
By then she was far out on the heaving grey sea, with low-pitched grumbling on her benches, and prayers to Lord Aegir and the Thunderer.
He was interrupted by a heaving shock that made the underground dome dwelling shake like a light airboat in turbulence.
He half led, half carried her there, where an aircraftman was just heaving the second last parachute and container through the doorway.
She began to cry, laying her face in her crossed arms, the tears gushing, her whole frame aquiver, and heaving great sobs.
My body was heaving, but I could feel Betsey holding on to me, holding me tight, refusing to let go.
A gout of fire bloomed in the heaving mass of rats, blackening and roasting scores of the creatures.
Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.
He left the verandah and came over to where I was standing by poor old Bronzewing, whose wide-spread nostrils and heaving flanks were good evidence as to the pace at which he had lately been compelled to travel.
With a little cry, she flung both her arms around me and dragged me down upon her, my chest mashing down the heaving goblets of her bubbies, and her tongue rapiered its way into my own eager mouth.
Underneath, sunk in the floor, and most of them covered with chicken wire, there were tray upon tray swarming and heaving with worms and baits: white worms, micro worms, Daphnia, shrimp, and thick slimy clam worms.
The Dogman, a legless beggar who had come by his nickname because he lapped water from the River Cerne like a dog, was heaving down South Street on the wooden bricks strapped to his hands.
Louise Fishman began to sob, great heaving sobs that shook her and made her gag.
As they did so, with flourishes, a fussy young woman wearing black velvet with a lace cravat heaving frothily on her breast appeared through the entrance.
The rhythm of the waves, heaving themselves sluggishly against the beach at the foot of the town, underwent some sort of subtle change, or so van Hoek claimed.
And there was the Horntail, at the other end of the enclosure, crouched low over her clutch of eggs, her wings half-furled, her evil, yellow eyes upon him, a monstrous, scaly, black lizard, thrashing her spiked tail, heaving yard-long gouge marks in the hard ground.