HEAVES

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

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, etc.

A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.

To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

"We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing."

To throw, cast.

"The cap'n hove the body overboard."

To rise and fall.

"Her chest heaved with emotion."

A period of retching.

"I have the dry heaves, I rather just throw up and get it over with."

A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.