How To Use heave up In A Sentence
- A nautical man would have noticed, too, that she was hove short, right over her anchor, so that no time should be lost in bowsing that up to the cathead and getting under weigh, when the time came to man the windlass and heave up the cable, with a "Yo-heave ho! Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
- I could not be absolutely certain of her identity until her hull should heave up clear of the horizon, but that jaunty steeve of bowsprit and the hoist and spread of those topsails were all very strongly suggestive of the A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
- -- Heave up with the roller handspike under the end of the bracket on the side on which the truck is to be removed; handspikemen pass inside the breeching and place their handspikes under the axletree as near the truck as possible, and, assisted by 5 and 6, lift the gun while the shellman removes the old truck and side-tackleman puts on new one. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
- A performance like that makes me want to heave up.
- Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that's the haunch and the nombles, and e'en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds. The Monastery
- Nay, by my faith, if you be so heavy, I will content me with the best of you, and that’s the haunch and the nombles, and e’en heave up the rest on the old oak-tree yonder, and come back for it with one of the yauds.” The Monastery
- If ten men together be to lift a log, all must jointly suna'ntilamba'nein, that is, heave up their parts (or rather their counterparts) together. Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
- I tried again to heave up, flailing my arms feebly, without success - and now my dream came back to me, half-understood, and I knew from the numbness of my limbs that this was no ordinary waking ... Watershed
