Usually means: Lift or haul with effort.
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  1. heave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heave, heave: Wordnik
  7. heave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heave: Wiktionary
  9. heave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heave: Dictionary.com
  13. heave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Heave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. heave: Rhymezone
  19. Heave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. heave: Free Dictionary
  22. heave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. heave: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. heave: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. heave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. heave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heave: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Heave: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See heaved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
verb:  (transitive) To throw, cast.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise and fall.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with effort.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
verb:  (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
verb:  (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
verb:  (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
verb:  (obsolete, British, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
noun:  An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
noun:  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.
noun:  A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
noun:  (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
noun:  An effort to vomit; retching.
noun:  (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
noun:  (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

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