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heave
English
Etymology
From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?pyéti, from the root *keh?p-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hi?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Verb
heave (third-person singular simple present heaves, present participle heaving, simple past heaved or hove, past participle heaved or hove or hoven or heft)
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- They heaved rocks into the pond.
- The cap'n hove the body overboard.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- Her chest heaved with emotion.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World
- Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- Heave up the anchor there, boys!
- (transitive, archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
- 1647, Robert Herrick, Noble Numbers
- Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.
- 1647, Robert Herrick, Noble Numbers
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
- 17 June, 1857, Edward Everett, The Statue of Warren
- the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (transitive, now rare) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
- The wind heaved the waves.
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- to heave the ship ahead
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave.
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, a sermon, An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation at Oxford
- She [The Church of England] had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wickliff's days.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, a sermon, An Answer to some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation at Oxford
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
Derived terms
- heave in sight
- heave to
- overheave
- two, six, heave or two six heave (see in Wikipedia)
- upheave
Related terms
- heavy
- heft
Descendants
- ? Danish: hive
- ? Faroese: hiva
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: hiva, hive
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: hive
- ? Scanian: hyva
- Hallandian: hiva
- ? Swedish: hiva
- Sudermannian: hyva
- ? Westrobothnian: hyv
Translations
Noun
heave (plural heaves)
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
Translations
References
Anagrams
- hevea
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wrench
English
Alternative forms
- (15th century): wrenche; (15th century): wrinche; (16th century): wringe
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: r?nch IPA(key): /??nt????/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Etymology 1
From Middle English wrench, from Old English wren?, from Proto-Germanic *wrankiz (“a turning, twisting”). Compare German Rank (“plot, intrigue”).
Noun
wrench (plural wrenches)
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug. [from 16th c.]
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and sprang at us.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A trick or artifice. [from 8th c.]
- c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
- Mon mai longe liues wene; / Ac ofte him liedh the wrench.
- c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246
- (obsolete) Deceit; guile; treachery. [from 13th c.]
- (obsolete) A turn at an acute angle. [from 16th c.]
- (archaic) A winch or windlass. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) A screw. [from 16th c.]
- A distorting change from the original meaning. [from 17th c.]
- (US) A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner. [from 18th c.]
- (Britain) An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation. [from 19th c.]
- (physics) In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body. [from 19th c.]
- (obsolete) means; contrivance
- But weighing one thing with another he gave Britain for lost; but resolved to make his profit of this business of Britain, as a quarrel for war; and that of Naples, as a wrench and mean for peace
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
Synonyms
- (tool): spanner (UK, Australia)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English wrenchen, from Old English wren?an, from Proto-Germanic *wrankijan?. Compare German renken.
Verb
wrench (third-person singular simple present wrenches, present participle wrenching, simple past and past participle wrenched)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To violently move in a turn or writhe. [from 11th c.]
- (transitive) To pull or twist violently. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To turn aside or deflect. [from 13th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To slander. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To tighten with or as if with a winch. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To distort from the original meaning. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive, fencing, obsolete) To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To rack with pain. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To use the tool known as a wrench. [from 19th c.]
Translations
Further reading
- wrench on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wrench on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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