HEAVE (3)

Heave, n. 1. 1. An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one's self, or to move something heavy.
After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves. Hudibras. 2. 2. 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.
There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves, You must translate. Shak. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle . . . or swallow them. Dryden. 3. 3. (Geol.) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.