Usually means: Lifting or pulling with effort.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word heaving:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. heaving: Merriam-Webster
  2. heaving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heaving: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heaving: Vocabulary.com
  5. Heaving, heaving: Wordnik
  6. heaving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. heaving: Wiktionary
  8. Heaving, heaving: Dictionary.com
  9. heaving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Heaving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Heaving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. heaving: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. heaving: Rhymezone
  14. Heaving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. heaving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. heaving: FreeDictionary.org
  17. Heaving: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. heaving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. heaving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heaving: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heaving: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heaving: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. heaving: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heaving: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heaving: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. heaving: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Crowded with people.
noun:  An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.

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