HEAVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heaves mean? 

• HEAVES (noun)
  The noun HEAVES has 1 sense:

1. a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks

  Familiarity information: HEAVES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

broken wind; heaves

Hypernyms ("heaves" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

 Context examples 

His broad chest heaves with pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

See how his chest heaves, and his dear feathers all awry—the little knight who would not have his lady mishandled.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your chest heaves and strains. To live! To live! To live—

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Got so touchy that he assaults anyone who asks questions, and heaves reporters down the stairs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A succession of heaves from the back of the crowd had sent a series of long ripples running through it, all the heads swaying rhythmically in the one direction like a wheatfield in a squall.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even with so formidable a guard and such fierce measures, the beaters-out, who had to check the forward heaves of a maddened, straining crowd, were often as exhausted at the end of a fight as the principals themselves.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)