HEAVE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heave up mean? 

• HEAVE UP (verb)
  The verb HEAVE UP has 1 sense:

1. lift or elevate

  Familiarity information: HEAVE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lift or elevate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

heave; heave up; heft; heft up

Hypernyms (to "heave up" is one way to...):

lift (take hold of something and move it to a different location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heave up"):

upheave (lift forcefully from beneath)

weigh anchor; weigh the anchor (heave up an anchor in preparation for sailing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

A clash, the clatter of the steel-cap upon the ground, and, ere the man who struck could heave up for another blow, the archer had passed his sword through his body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)