Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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]