Usually means: Stopping a sailing vessel's progress.
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  1. heave to: Merriam-Webster
  2. heave to: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heave to: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heave to: Wiktionary
  5. heave to: Dictionary.com
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  7. heave to: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. heave-to: Wordnik
  9. heave-to: Wiktionary
  10. heave to: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. heave to: Encyclopedia

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  1. heave to: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. heave to: Idioms

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  1. Heave to: Sports Definitions

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Heave To: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (heave to)

verb:  (intransitive, nautical, sailing) To cause (one's vessel) to become dead in the water by pointing the bows directly towards the wind.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical, of a ship or other naval vessel) To come to a halt.

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