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To heave up

Heave \Heave\ (h[=e]v), v. i.

  1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

    And the huge columns heave into the sky.
    --Pope.

    Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
    --Gray.

    The heaving sods of Bunker Hill.
    --E. Everett.

  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.
    --Prior.

    The heaving plain of ocean.
    --Byron.

  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.
    --Atterbury.

  4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit. To heave at.

    1. To make an effort at.

    2. To attack, to oppose. [Obs.]
      --Fuller.

      To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear.

      To heave up, to vomit. [Low]

Usage examples of "to 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.

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.

My men have orders to heave up the anchors and sail hence if I don't reappear within the hour, or if they suspect treachery.

Tararu was about to heave up the last of them when Minarii laid a hand on his arm.

Well, we were just about to heave up, for we had shipped two more men in place of Sam, who was to be tried for his life, and the poor fellow he had killed, when a lawyer chap came on board with what they call a suppeny for me.

My men have orders to heave up the anchors and sail hence if I dont reappear within the hour, or if they suspect treachery.