To stop (a seagoing vessel). / (nautical) To back-wind the jib and luff the main to hold a position especially in heavy seas.

(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). / (transitive) To throw, cast. / (intransitive) To rise and fall. / (transitive) To utter with effort.

An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.

simple past tense and past participle of heave

plural of heave

(colloquial) A period of retching. / A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heave

past tense of heave to

(intransitive, nautical) (sailing) To cause (one's vessel) to become dead in the water by pointing the bows directly towards the wind.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heave to