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▪ I. heaving, vbl. n.|ˈhiːvɪŋ|
[f. heave v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb heave, q.v., in various senses.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxl[i]. 2 Heving of mi hend. a1310in Wright Lyric P. x. 36 Ne kepte heo non heuyng here. 1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 250 With heuynge and shouynge, haue in and haue oute. 1601Holland Pliny II. 62 The sicke heauing of the stomacke. Ibid. 277 They shall not be sea-sicke nor giuen to heauing, as commonly they be that are at sea. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. ii. iii. 35 'Tis such as you That creepe like shadowes by him, and do sighe At each his needlesse heauings. 1709Steele Tatler No. 82 ⁋4 The silent heaving of the Waves. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chem. I. 391 A reduction of the Lead, which is always attended with a sort of effervescence, and such a considerable heaving, that..most of the mixture runs over the crucible. 1802Playfair Illust. Hutton. Th. 255 The heaving of one vein by another. 1805Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 279 A..mode of fishing, called heaving or hauling, is standing in the stream..with a bag or net fixed to a kind of frame... Whenever a fish strikes against the net, they..instantly haul up the mouth of the net above water. 1847Emerson Poems. Threnody 101 When thou didst yield thy innocent breath In birdlike heavings unto death.
b. The rustic custom, formerly observed at Easter, of heaving or lifting into the air persons of the opposite sex.
1787Public Advertiser 13 Apr. (Brand), The counties of Shropshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire boast of one [custom] of equal antiquity, which they call Heaving. 1800F. Leighton Let. to J. Boucher 17 Feb. (MS.), With respect to the custom of heaving at Easter..The men heave the women on Easter Monday; the women heave the men on the Tuesday. 1826Hone Every-day Bk. I. 425 Lifting or heaving differs a little in different places. In some parts the person is laid horizontally, in others placed in a sitting position on the bearers' hands. Usually, when the lifting or heaving is within doors, a chair is produced.
c. A name for certain diseases of animals: see quots.
1799Med. Jrnl. I. 116 The pox of swine, called also by the London feeders, the heavings. 1883Standard 19 Apr. 2/3 The disease from which ewes die, about three days after parturition..generally called ‘inflammation’, or sometimes ‘heaving’, is due to a disease which is analogous to puerperal fever in women.
†d. heaving of the maw: name of an old game at cards. Obs.
a1612Harington Epigr. iv. 12 Then thirdly follow'd heauing of the Maw, A game without Civility or Law, An odious play, and yet in Court oft seene, A sawcy knave to trump both King and Queene.
e. With adv. heaving-down, heaving-to: see heave v. 20
1799Nelson 6 Mar. in Nicolas Disp. (1843) III. 280 The Emerald..having been on shore and got so much damage as to require heaving down. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle i. (1876) 4 Heaving to was impossible. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket-bk. v. 146 Conveniences for heaving down.
f. attrib. and Comb.: heaving-day (see quots., and b above); † heaving-house, (?) a gambling-house, for dice-play; heaving-line (Naut.), a line, usually from 5 to 10 fathoms long, used for casting from a vessel to enable a hawser to be hauled ashore or to another vessel; heaving-net, a net that is heaved or hauled up; see quot. 1805 in a.
1584Order in Descr. Thames (1758) 63 No Fishermen, Garthmen, Petermen..shall avaunce or set up any Wears, Engines..Heaving Nets, except they be 2 Inches in the Meish. 1579T. F. Newes fr. North xiv. (1585) F iv, I call to witnesse the Theaters, Curtaines, Heauing-houses, Rifling boothes, Bowling alleyes, and such places. 1826Hone Every-day Bk. I. 425 Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday were known by the name of heaving day, because on the former day it was customary for the men to heave and kiss the women, and on the latter day for the women to retaliate on the men. Ibid., The women's heaving-day was the most amusing.
▪ II. ˈheaving, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That heaves, in various senses; see the verb.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. ii. 196 The performance of our heauing spleenes. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 166 The Youthful Charioteers with heaving Heart Rush to the Race. 1714Gay Trivia ii. 193 The heaving tide In widen'd circles beats on either side. 1833H. Martineau Fr. Wines & Pol. iv. 66 A heaving ocean of upturned faces. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid v. 33 Over the heaving billows the ships of the Teucrians go. |