(colloquial) A period of retching. / A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heave

plural of heave

To stop (a seagoing vessel). / (nautical) To back-wind the jib and luff the main to hold a position especially in heavy seas.

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

(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). / (transitive) To throw, cast. / (intransitive) To rise and fall. / (transitive) To utter with effort.

simple past tense and past participle of heave

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heave to

past tense of heave to

(intransitive, nautical) (sailing) To cause (one's vessel) to become dead in the water by pointing the bows directly towards the wind.