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Heave
King James Dictionary
or HEAVE, heev. pret. heaved, or hove pp. heaved, hove, formerly hoven. Gr. to breathe.
1. To lift to raise to move upward.
So stretch'd out huge in length the arch fiend lay,
Chain'd on the burning lake, nor ever hence
Had ris'n, or heaved his head.
2. To cause to swell.
The glittering finny swarms
That heave our friths and crowd upon our shores.
3. To raise or force from the breast as, to heave a sigh or groan, which is accompanied with a swelling or expansion of the thorax.
4. To raise to elevate with high.
One heaved on high.
5. To puff to elate.
6. To throw to cast to send as, to heave a stone. This is a common use of the word in popular language, and among seamen as, to heave the lead.
7. To raise by turning a windlass with up as, to heave up the anchor. Hence,
8. To turn a windlass or capstern with bars or levers. Hence the order, to heave away.
To heave ahead, to draw ship forwards.
To heave astern, to cause to recede to draw back.
To heave down, to throw or lay down on one side to careen.
To heave out, to throw out. With seamen, to loose or unfurl a sail, particularly the stay-sails.
To heave in stays, in tacking, to bring a ship's head to the wind.
To heave short, to draw so much of a cable into the ship, as that she is almost perpendicularly above the anchor.
To heave a strain, to work at the windlass with unusual exertion.
To heave taught, to turn a capstern, &c. till the rope becomes straight. See Taught and Tight.
To heave to, to bring the ship's head to the wind, and stop her motion.
To heave up, to relinquish so to throw up as, to heave up a design. Vulgar.
HEAVE, heev. To swell, distend or dilate as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,
1. To pant to breathe with labor or pain as, he heaves for breath.
2. To keck to make an effort to vomit.
3. To rise in billows, as the sea to swell.
4. To rise to be lifted as, a ship heaves.
5. To rise or swell, as the earth at the breaking up of frost.
To heave in sight, to appear to make its first appearance as a ship at sea, or as a distant object approaching or being approached.
We observe that this verb has often the sense of raising or rising in an arch or circular form, as in throwing and in distention, and from this sense is derived its application to the apparent arch over our heads, heaven.
HEAVE, n. heev. A rising or swell an exertion or effort upward.
None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them.
1. A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast.
These profound heaves.
2. An effort to vomit.
3. An effort to rise.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Heave'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/heave.html.
