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Heave vs Hale - What's the difference?

heave | hale |

As nouns the difference between heave and hale

is that heave is an effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy while hale is , black pine (pinus nigra ) or hale can be awn, beard of grain.

As a verb heave

is (archaic) to lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.

heave

English

Verb

  • (archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
  • * Herrick
    • Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.
  • 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.
  • To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • And the huge columns heave into the sky.
  • * Gray
    • where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
  • * E. Everett
    • the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
  • (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
  • To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
    • The wind heaved the waves.
  • To rise and fall.
    • Her chest heaved with emotion.
  • * Prior
    • Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves .
  • * Byron
    • the heaving plain of ocean
  • To utter with effort.
    • She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
  • To throw, cast.
    • The cap'n hove the body overboard.
  • (nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
    • Heave up the anchor there, boys!
  • (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
    • to heave the ship ahead
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=At the Earth's Core , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=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, }}
  • To make an effort to vomit; to retch.
  • To vomit.
    • The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave .
  • To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
  • * Atterbury
    • The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days.

    Derived terms

    *heave in sight *)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end}}
  • An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.
  • A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
  • (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch.

    • hale

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Health, welfare.
  • * Spenser
    • All heedless of his dearest hale .

    Etymology 2

    Representing a Northern dialectal form of (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • Last year we thought him strong and hale .
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
    "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
    Antonyms
    * unhale
    Usage notes
    * Now rather uncommon, except in the stock phrase "hale and hearty".

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) halen, from (etyl) haler, from (etyl) ‘upright beam on a loom’). Doublet of (l).

    Verb

    (hal)
  • To drag, pull, especially forcibly.
  • * , II.6:
    • For I had beene vilely hurried and haled by those poore men, which had taken the paines to carry me upon their armes a long and wearysome way, and to say truth, they had all beene wearied twice or thrice over, and were faine to shift severall times.
  • * 1820 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), , :
    • The wingless, crawling hours, one among whom / As some dark Priest hales the reluctant victim / Shall drag thee, cruel King, to kiss the blood.
  • *
    • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance..
  • * 1992 , (Hilary Mantel), (A Place of Greater Safety) , Harper Perennial, 2007, page 262:
    • They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.

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