heave /hēv/

1. To lift up, esp with great effort
2. To throw
3. To haul
4. To swell or puff out
5. To force (a sigh) from the chest
6. To displace (a vein) (mining)

1. To be raised
2. To rise like waves
3. To retch
4. To strive or strain to lift or move something
5. To move into a certain position, orig of a ship, now also figurative

1. An effort upward
2. A throw
3. A swelling
4. An effort to vomit
5. A sigh (Shakespeare)
6. Horizontal displacement (mining)
7. The lifting up of soil and rocks, eg because of the freezing of water below the surface of the ground
8. (of spacecraft) movement perpendicular to the direction of travel (cf surge¹)
9. (in pl) broken wind in horses

heavˈer noun

heavˈing noun

heaveˈ-ho noun (informal)

Dismissal, rejection (see also below)

heaveˈ-offering or heaveˈ-shoulder noun (Bible)

An offering, an animal's shoulder, offered in sacrifice with a lifting and lowering of the hands

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• fluking
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• flummeries
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• flummox
• flummoxed
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• flummoxing
• flump
• flumped
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• flunkey