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heave ho, int. and n.
Formerly also heave and how (hoe, etc.); heave-low (-law, -logh).
[app. the imperative of heave v., (?) with ho int. Cf. also hey ho.]
a. A cry of sailors in heaving the anchor up, etc.; also used as the burden of a song. † with heave and how (ho), fig. with force, with might and main (obs.).
13..Coer de L. 2522 They rowede hard, and sungge ther too: ‘With heuelow and rumbeloo’. 1494Fabyan vii. 420. a 1500 Ortus Vocab., Celeuma est clamor nauticus, vel cantus vel heuylaw romylawe [ed. 1518 ut heue and howe, rombylow]. a1529Skelton Bowge of Courte 252 Heue and how rombelow, row the bote, Norman, rowe! 1558T. Phaer æneid vi. R iij, Heaue and hoaw for ioy they sing. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxxvii. lxxxix, Though they seeme in punishing but slow, Yet pay they home at last, with heaue and how. 1600Nashe Summer's Last Will 243 Here enter..3. maids, singing this song, daunsing: Trip and goe, heaue and hoe, Vp and downe, to and fro. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Cor, A cor & à cry,..by might and maine, with heaue and hoe; eagerly, vehemently, seriously. 1803Dibdin Songs II. 254 To the windlass let us go, With yo heave ho! 1885C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 175 Yells,..snatches of song, and heave-hoys rent the air.
b. orig. U.S. slang. A snub or dismissal.
1944D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte (1946) vi. 107 A most obnoxious character..tries to claim the deuce as a sleeper and gets the heave-o from Nathan Detroit. 1952B. Cerf Good for Laugh (1953) 152 I'll bet that new girl..gave you the heave-ho. 1962Wodehouse Service with Smile vii. 112 If I were you, I think I would reconsider this idea of yours of giving Bill Bailey the old heave-ho. 1966New Yorker 22 Oct. 52 Do we keep him on or give him the heave-ho? 1973Guardian 20 Jan. 1/5 Mr Heath's prices and incomes package was given the old heave-ho by..the TUC Economic Committee.
Hence heave-ho v. intr., to cry ‘heave ho!’; also v. trans., to heave or lift with force.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxv. 81 They were heave-hoing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours. 1964New Yorker 18 Jan. 84 A groaning mass of men heave-ho'd the snow car up the ramp. 1968Listener 5 Dec. 768 During a rehearsal of Billy Budd, a singer was asked why he was just lolling about in the wings, not heave⁓hoing with the rest of them. 1971Guardian Weekly 7 Aug. 17 The [Congolese] women who, apparently 12 months pregnant, nonetheless are constantly hauling and heave-hoing on this packing case of merchandise or that basket full of provisions. |