The glittering, finny swarms That heave our friths, and crowd upon
our shores.
Thomson.
To heave a cable short (Naut.), to haul in cable till the ship is
almost perpendicularly above the anchor. -- To heave a ship ahead
(Naut.), to warp her ahead when not under sail, as by means of cables.
-- To heave a ship down (Naut.), to throw or lay her down on one side;
to careen her. -- To heave a ship to (Naut.), to bring the ship's head
to the wind, and stop her motion. - - To heave about (Naut.), to put
about suddenly. -- To heave in (Naut.), to shorten (cable). -- To heave
in stays (Naut.), to put a vessel on the other tack. -- To heave out a
sail (Naut.), to unfurl it. -- To heave taut (Naut.), to turn a
capstan, etc., till the rope becomes strained. See Taut, and Tight. --
To heave the lead (Naut.), to take soundings with lead and line. -- To
heave the log. (Naut.) See Log. -- To heave up anchor (Naut.), to raise
it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere.
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Heave (hv), 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.