Verb

(head)

(archaic) (heave)

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.

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (leave)

* {{quote-book, year=1878, author=Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella, title=Sonnets, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=But thou, thyself not knowing, leavest all For a poor price to strangers; since thy head Is weak, albeit thy limbs are stout and good. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Madge Morris, title=Debris, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Each loved one that thou leavest here, Some other love may wear, Each heart will have some other heart Its loneliness to share. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles Alfred Downer, title=Frédéric Mistral, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="My head is bursting, and since from the heights of my supernatural love a thunderbolt thus hurls me down, since, nothing, nothing henceforth, from this moment on, can give me joy, since, cruel woman, when thou couldst throw me a rope, thou leavest me, in dismay, to drink the bitter current--let death come, black hiding-place, bottomless abyss! let me plunge down head first!" }}

* {{quote-book, year=1544-1595, author=Edward Fairfax (1560-1635);, title=Jerusalem Delivered, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=XXXVI "Whither, O cruel! leavest thou me alone?" }}