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heave up

v. lift or elevate [syn: heave, heft, heft up]

Usage examples of "heave up".

This was a difficult task in itself, the best bower weighing thirty-one hundredweight, and it was harder now, since at the same time they had to warp the ship across the bay to heave up the second anchor, laid out ahead.

This caused my charming inamorata to heave up her buttocks as a challenge to me, not to waste more time, so I put spurs to my steed, but none too soon, for just as we died away in a mutual spend, Frank, Sisters, and Co.

Can you heave up the little keg till Mr Martin and I can catch a hold on it?

He was therefore almost surprised to see the Commodore's large red face heave up over the edge of his capacious nest.

Suddenly the man gave a convulsive heave up with his stomach in an attempt to pitch Ramage forward over his head.

Now the waves they were encountering were true Atlantic rollers, heaving up Clorinda's starboard bow, and passing aft as the bows dipped to heave up the port quarter.

I beat at it with my fists, and tried to heave up, but its weight and the agony in my side stopped me - there was a rib gone for sure, if nothing worse.