How do you use the word "heave" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "heave" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "heave": This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor. Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over.

Heave Meaning

/ˈhiːv/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

verbTo throw, cast.

Sentence Examples

This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.

Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

surge

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The sailors had to ____ the heavy anchor onto the deck.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The sailors had to ____ the heavy anchor up from the bottom of the sea manually.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, from the root *kap-. See also have. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian heffe, Dutch heffen ("to raise", "to lift"), German heben ("to raise", "to lift"), Danish hæve ("to raise", "to lift"), Albanian kap (“to grasp, seize”), Old Irish cáin (“law, tribute”), cacht (“prisoner”), Latin capiō (“to take”), Latvian kàmpt (“to seize”), Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), κώπη (kṓpē, “handle”)). (To lift, to raise): Compare typologically Russian поднима́ть (podnimátʹ), подня́ть (podnjátʹ) (akin to има́ть (imátʹ), име́ть (imétʹ) < Proto-Slavic *jьmati, *jьměti).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves." — 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

"the heaving plain of ocean" — 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXII:

"Presently the moon went down, and left us floating on the waters, now only heaving like some troubled woman's breast, with leisure to reflect upon all that we had gone through and all that we had escaped." — 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

"The wretched animal heaved forth such groans." — c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

"Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand; […]" — 1647–1648, Robert Herrick, “[Noble Numbers.] Another Grace for a Child.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick. […] (Early English Poets), volume III, London: Chatto and Windus, […], published 1876, →OCLC, page 158:

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