Heave \Heave\ (h[=e]v), v. i.

1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.

And the huge columns heave into the sky. --Pope.

Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. --Gray.

The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. --E. Everett.

2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle.

Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves. --Prior.

The heaving plain of ocean. --Byron.

3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.

The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif's days. --Atterbury.

4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

To heave at.
   (a) To make an effort at.
   (b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.]

--Fuller.

To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to appear.

To heave up, to vomit. [Low]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)