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

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

(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.

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

An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.

present participle of heave

(informal) Crowded with people.

simple past tense and past participle of heave

past tense of heave to

present participle of heave to