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heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or, nautical, hove, past participle heaved or, nautical hove/ hoven)

   (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
   (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

       We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.

   (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
   (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.

       The wind heaved the waves.

   (intransitive) To rise and fall.

       Her chest heaved with emotion.

   (transitive) To utter with effort.

       She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

   (transitive, now nautical) To throw, cast.

       The cap'n hove the body overboard.

   (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.

       Heave up the anchor there, boys!

   (intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.

           1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core[1], The Gutenberg Project:

               The Sagoths were now not over two hundred and fifty yards behind us, and I saw that it was hopeless for us to expect to escape other than by a ruse. There was a bare chance of saving Ghak and Perry, and as I reached the branching of the canyon I took the chance. Pausing there I waited until the foremost Sagoth hove into sight. Ghak and Perry had disappeared around a bend in the left-hand canyon,

   (intransitive) To make an effort to vomit; to retch.
   (intransitive) To vomit.

       The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.