HEAVE (2)

heave (2). Heave, v. heaved, hove, pret. heaved, hove, pa. to lift, swell, pant, beat, vomit, cast

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Heave (hēv), v. i. 1. 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. 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. 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. 4. 4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
To heave at. (a) To make an effort at. (b) To attack, to oppose. Fuller. — To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear. — To heave up, to vomit.