Read full poem →Then, 'twas before my time, the Roman
At yonder heaving hill would stare:
The blood that warms an English yeoman,
Dictionary Entry
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
In a Sentence
“We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. heavingbreast heavingbosom heavingheaving chestheaving frost
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Antonyms
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Poetry examples for “heaving”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →For the cloudlike wave that my limbs while cleaving
Feel as in slumber beneath them heaving
Soothes the sense as to slumber, leaving
Read full poem →Vexed in the squally seas as we lay by Capraja and Elba,
Standing, uplifted, alone on the heaving poop of the vessel,
Looking around on the waste of the rushing incurious billows,
Read full poem →And all the subtle zephyr hurries gay,
And all the heaving ocean heaves one way,
'Tward the void sky-line and an unguess'd weal;
Read full poem →And us the waste sea soon shall part,
Heaving for aye, without a heart!
Mother, what need to warn me so?
Read full poem →The welling in the grateful eyes,
The heaving in the heart.
Winnow with sighs
Read full poem →Ye Winds that westward flow,
Thou heaving Sea
That heav'st 'twixt her and me,
Read full poem →Ye Winds that westward flow,
Thou heaving Sea
That heav'st 'twixt her and me,
Read full poem →Mere impotence of rest,
The heaving vain of life which cannot cease from self,
Crest altering still to gulf
Read full poem →Large lovely arms and a neck like a tower,
Bosom then heaving that now lies forlorn.
Kindled with love-breath, (the sun's kiss is colder!)