heave
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Is heave a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).Examples: "We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing."; "He hove himself out of the bed."Synonyms: heft, upheavetransitive
2. (transitive) To throw, cast.Examples: "They hove rocks into the pond."; "The cap'n hove the body overboard."Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashtransitive
3. (intransitive) To rise and fall.Examples: "Her chest heaved with emotion."; "Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves."; "the heaving plain of ocean"intransitive
4. (transitive) To utter with effort.Examples: "She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window."; "The wretched animal heaved forth such groans."transitive
5. (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.Examples: "Heave up the anchor there, boys!"Synonyms: hoist, pulley, teagletransitive
6. (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.Examples: "Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; […]"archaictransitive
noun (English)
1. (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.Examples: "We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last."; "July made no reply but that of a sigh. For she was thinking of the heave she must make to see herself lifted from the ground."countable
2. (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.countableuncountable
3. (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.Examples: "The dust would have to be watched out for with a heave horse, and most alfalfa hay..."; "The late stage is recognized by horse people as the true "heave" horse and at this stage most of the airways are partially or completely obstructed."; "The bay horse was straining at the time the picture was taken, making its heave line more noticeable."attributivecountablerareuncountable
4. (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectoryExamples: "That left 15 needed from Boult's final set. Two dots were followed by a heave over deep mid-wicket, then came the outrageous moment of fortune."countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary