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Definition of Heave up
1. Verb. Lift or elevate.
Specialized synonyms: Upheave, Weigh Anchor, Weigh The Anchor
Generic synonyms: Lift
Derivative terms: Heave, Heave, Heaver, Heaving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heave Up
Literary usage of Heave up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana (1897)
"... time every one was in motion, the sails loosed, the yards braced, and we began
to heave up the anchor. In a few minutes we were under way. ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"To rear, to heave up ; to put or place up in an elevated position ; to elevate,
to exalt. See HP-RISE. UP-REAR, v. -INC..* To raise up, to elevate, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"If not lauded, heave up 3 or 4 feet before securing the end of the hawser, so that,
.... The capstan and jeers will heave up the bulk of the weight, ..."
4. Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1884)
"Heave short; set the jib in stops, and hook on the fore sheets. To cast to port:
put the helm to starboard, heave up the anchor; break out the jib, ..."
5. Seamanship: Comp. from Various Authorities, and Illustrated with Numerous by Stephen Bleecker Luce (1877)
"Cat it, and then heave up the port sheet in the same way. ... when that is done,
heave up the lee anchor, cat and fish it; heave in, or veer away, ..."
6. The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each by Abby Maria Hemenway, George W. Wing, Carrie Elizabeth Hemenway Page (1871)
"... when they had got the frame about half raised, they all got hold of the timber,
and all hallooed "heave up! heave up! heave! can't go! heave rum! ..."
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