heaver verb
heave
The verb form of heaver is heave
H hDefinitions
- verb with object heaver to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax. 1
- verb with object heaver to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window. 1
- verb with object heaver Nautical. to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback. to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor! 1
- verb with object heaver to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh. 1
- verb with object heaver to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest. 1
- verb with object heaver to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon. 1
- verb with object heaver to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable! 1
- verb without object heaver to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea. 1
- verb without object heaver to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort. 1
- verb without object heaver to vomit; retch. 1
- verb without object heaver to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around. 1
- verb without object heaver to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc. 1
- verb without object heaver to push, as on a capstan bar. 1
- verb without object heaver Nautical. to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays. (of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea. 1