heave ho


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heave ho

interj.
Used as a command to sailors to pull hard on a rope or cable.
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heave ho

interj → hau ruck
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Pictured right, from top, fun-lovers are skating on thin ice in Stratford upon the frozen Avon in the bitter winter of 1963, while a lone commuter braves Corporation Street in 1990, and, bottom, it's heave ho and off to work we go in Priory Road, Edgbaston in February 1981.
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