heave

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To raise or lift, especially with great effort or force: synonym: lift.
• intransitive verb To throw (a heavy object) with great effort; hurl.
• intransitive verb To throw or toss.
• intransitive verb To give out or utter with effort or pain.
• intransitive verb To vomit (something).
• intransitive verb To raise or haul up by means of a rope, line, or cable.
• intransitive verb To move (a ship) in a certain direction or into a certain position by hauling.
• intransitive verb To make rise or swell.
• intransitive verb Geology To displace or move (a vein, lode, or stratum, for example).
• intransitive verb To rise up or swell, as if pushed up; bulge.
• intransitive verb To rise and fall in turn, as waves.
• intransitive verb To gag or vomit.
• intransitive verb To pant; gasp.
• intransitive verb To move in a certain direction or to a specified position.
• intransitive verb To pull at or haul a rope or cable.
• intransitive verb To push at a capstan bar or lever.
• noun The act or effort of raising or lifting something.
• noun An act of hurling; a throw, especially when considered in terms of distance.
• noun A horizontal dislocation, as of a rock stratum, at a fault.
• noun An upward movement of a surface, especially when caused by swelling and expansion of clay, removal of overburden, or freezing of subsurface water.
• noun An upward movement, especially of a ship or aircraft.
• noun The act or an instance of gagging or vomiting.
• noun A pulmonary disease of horses that is characterized by respiratory irregularities, such as coughing, and is noticeable especially after exercise or in cold weather.
• idiom (sight/view) To rise or seem to rise over the horizon into view, as a ship.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An act of heaving; a lifting, throwing, tossing, or retching exertion.
• noun An upward movement or expansion; swell or distention, as of the waves of the sea, of the lungs in difficult or painful breathing, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.; a forcible uplifting.
• noun A rise of land; a knoll.
• noun In mining, a dislocation or displacement of a part of a vein, in consequence of its intersection by another vein or cross-course, or by a simple slide, fracture, or jointing of the country-rock.
• noun plural A disease of horses. See heaves.
• To raise; lift; hoist.
• Especially To lift with obvious effort; raise with exertion, as something heavy or resistant.
• To lift (a child) at baptism; baptize; also, to be sponsor for.
• To weigh; heft.
• To cause to swell or bulge upward; raise above the former or the surrounding level: often with up.
• To elevate or elate in condition or feeling, as by the operation of some potent agency or some moving influence; exalt; promote; raise suddenly or forcibly to a higher state.
• To increase.
• To bring up or forth with effort; raise from the breast or utter with the voice laboriously or painfully: as, to heave a sigh or a groan.
• To throw upward and outward; cast or toss with force or effort; hurl or pitch, as with aim or purpose: as, to heave a stone; to heave the lead.
• In geology, to throw or lift out of its place: said of the intersection of two veins, or of that of a cross-course with another vein.
• Nautical, to draw or pull in any direction, as by means of a windlass or capstan: as, to heave a ship ahead (that is, to bring her forward, when not under sail, by means of a cable or other appliance); to heave up an anchor (to raise it from the bottom of the sea or elsewhere).
• Synonyms and Hoist, Lift, etc. See raise.
• To be raised, thrown, or forced up; rise; swell up; bulge out.
• To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the waves of the sea, the lungs in difficult or painful breathing, the earth in an earthquake, etc.
• To pant, as after severe exertion; labor.