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heave up

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Verb1.heave up - lift or elevate
heft, heft up, heave
upheave - lift forcefully from beneath
weigh anchor, weigh the anchor - heave up an anchor in preparation for sailing
lift - take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"
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? heave up
vi (inf, = vomit) → brechen
vt sep
(= pull up) → hochhieven, hochwuchten; (= push up) → hochstemmen
(inf, = vomit) → ausbrechen, von sich geben (inf)


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Her knowledge of literature and art surprised him, while deep down was the feeling that a girl who knew such things had no right to know how to rig tackles, heave up anchors, and sail schooners around the South Seas.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
In vain he had tried to heave up what was fast on the other end.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
The herd, as the column spread and thickened, was like the endless flocks of the smaller birds, whose extended flanks are so often seen to heave up out of the abyss of the heavens, until they appear as countless as the leaves in those forests, over which they wing their endless flight.
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