heave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: heaves
form: heaving
form: heaved
form: hove
topics: nautical
transport
form: heaved
form: hove
topics: nautical
transport
form: hoven
form: heft
Etymology: From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *keh₂p-. See also have.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“I grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)).
(To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti).
Senses: examples: text: We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.
text: He hove himself out of the bed.
synonyms: heft
upheave
glosses: To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
examples: text: They hove rocks into the pond.
text: The cap'n hove the body overboard.
synonyms: word: fling
word: hurl
word: bung
word: cast
word: chuck
word: chunk
word: cook
word: dash
word: dump
word: feck
word: fling
word: jerk
word: heave
word: hield
word: hoy
word: huck
word: hurl
word: hurtle
word: launch
word: lob
word: peck
word: peg
word: pick
word: pitch
word: precipitate
word: project
word: quoit
word: shy
word: slight
word: skew
word: sling
word: thrill
word: throw
word: toss
word: traject
word: warp
word: whang
word: whip
word: whop
word: wing
glosses: To throw, cast.
examples: text: Her chest heaved with emotion.
text: Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: the heaving plain of ocean
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXII:
text: Presently the moon went down, and left us floating on the waters, now only heaving like some troubled woman's breast, with leisure to reflect upon all that we had gone through and all that we had escaped.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To rise and fall.
examples: text: She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
text: The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To utter with effort.
examples: text: Heave up the anchor there, boys!
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: hoist
pulley
teagle
glosses: To pull up with a rope or cable.
examples: text: Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; […]
ref: 1647–1648, Robert Herrick, “[Noble Numbers.] Another Grace for a Child.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick. […] (Early English Poets), volume III, London: Chatto and Windus, […], published 1876, →OCLC, page 158:
glosses: To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
examples: text: The grovving Tovv'rs like Exhalations riſe, / And the huge Columns heave into the Skies.
ref: 1715, [Alexander] Pope, The Temple of Fame: A Vision, London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
ref: 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC:
text: 17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren
the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
synonyms: mound
tower
glosses: To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: To displace (a vein, stratum).
examples: text: The wind heaved the waves.
glosses: To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
examples: text: to heave the ship ahead
text: Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight.
ref: 1914 April 4–25, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Sly One”, in At the Earth’s Core, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 1922, →OCLC, page 209:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
examples: text: The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
synonyms: word: throw up
word: bait
word: barf
word: be sick
word: blow chunks
word: boak
word: boke
word: boot
word: bork
word: bow down before the porcelain god
word: cast
word: cast up one's accounts
word: chuck
word: chuck up
word: chunder
word: disgorge
word: drive the porcelain bus
word: erupt
word: gag
word: get sick
word: heave
word: honk
word: hurl
word: launch one's lunch
word: lose one's lunch
word: pray to the porcelain god
word: puke
word: puke up
word: purge
word: ralph
word: regurge
word: regurgitate
word: retch
word: shoot the cat
word: sick
word: sick up
word: spew
word: talk to God on the big white telephone
word: talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
word: throw up
word: toss
word: toss one's cookies
word: upchuck
word: vomit
word: woof one's cookies
word: whoops
word: worship the porcelain god
word: worship the porcelain goddess
word: yak
glosses: To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
examples: text: She [The Church of England] had ſtruggl'd and heav'd at a Reformation; ever ſince Wicliffs dayes, for about a 150 years together: […]
ref: 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Sheldonian] Theater, →OCLC, page 64:
synonyms: labour
toil
glosses: To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
examples: text: Ben mort (good vvench) ſhal you and I heaue a booth, mill a ken, or nip a bung? ſhall you and I rob a houſe, or cut a purſe?
ref: c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1611, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
synonyms: word: half-inch
word: mill
word: steal
word: abduct
word: abstract
word: appropriate
word: bag
word: bandit
word: bash and grab
word: bone
word: boost
word: burgle
word: burglarize
word: borrow
word: cheat
word: chore
word: commandeer
word: confiscate
word: convert
word: cop
word: cozen
word: crib
word: embezzle
word: filch
word: fleece
word: flog
word: gaffle
word: gilravage
word: half-inch
word: heave
word: heist
word: jack
word: kidnap
word: knock off
word: kipe
word: kyper
word: liberate
word: lift
word: loot
word: make off with
word: mill
word: misappropriate
word: mooch
word: moonlight requisition
word: nick
word: nip
word: own
word: peculate
word: pickpocket
word: pilfer
word: pinch
word: pillage
word: pirate
word: plunder
word: poach
word: pocket
word: prig
word: purloin
word: raid
word: relieve
word: rape
word: ransack
word: reave
word: rip
word: rip off
word: rob
word: run off with
word: snag
word: snatch
word: sniggle
word: snitch
word: swindle
word: swipe
word: thieve
word: walk off with
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
Derived terms: dry-heave
heave-ho
heave in sight
heave into sight
heave into view
heave in view
heaveless
heaver
heave-shoulder
heave the log
heave to
overheave
two, six, heave
upheave
Related terms: heavy
heft