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(usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
v
(idiomatic, transitive, figuratively) To uplift, hearten, inspire, or raise the spirits of.
v
(transitive) To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane.
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(transitive) To hoist with, or as if with, a derrick.
v
(obsolete) To lift up in front.
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(nautical) To appear at a distance, to emerge in the field of vision.
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Alternative form of heave in sight [(nautical) To appear at a distance, to emerge in the field of vision.]
v
Alternative form of heave in view [(nautical) Synonym of heave in sight]
n
(informal) A rejection; a forced removal.
n
An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.
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(transitive, Scotland) To hoist.
n
The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
v
To pull or raise with a jerk.
v
(informal, transitive) To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
n
The act by which something is hoisted.
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(nonstandard) Misconstruction of hove [(obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.]
v
Obsolete spelling of hoist [(transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).]
v
Obsolete form of enhance. [(obsolete) To lift, raise up.]
v
To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
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(UK, dialect) To heave; to tilt, as a cart.
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(transitive) To move with a lever.
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(obsolete) To bear; to support.
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To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle
v
(transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
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(transitive) To raise or lift by means of a pulley.
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(transitive, manufacturing) To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
v
(UK, dialect, transitive) To hoist or raise by means of a teagle.
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(military, nautical) A measure of the total weight of projectiles that can be delivered by a single broadside.
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(transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
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(intransitive) To weigh anchor.
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The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
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(transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
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(transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
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