Talk:heave


 * heave

This entry needs cleaning up. The style of the definitions is unusual for Wiktionary and so it should probably be checked to make sure it isn't a copyvio from somewhere. Thryduulf 00:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I've reworked the verb fairly thoroughly. Widsith 17:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

heave to
I was not seeing the nautical usage "heave to" ages ago when I first endeavoured to edit this page.

Example: The ship hove to.

Varlaam (talk) 05:05, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July–November 2019
Rfv-sense: broken wind in horses --Gibraltar Rocks (talk) 20:44, 14 July 2019 (UTC)


 * heaves seems a lot more common for this. (We have it there, too, with a clearer definition: "A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.") Equinox ◑ 20:49, 14 July 2019 (UTC)


 * The singular form may be seen in attributive use, as in “heave line”. --Lambiam 08:39, 15 July 2019 (UTC)


 * This challenge came from perennial troll Wonderfool. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't apply our usual standards but since (as I showed) heaves has the meaning, it's clearly not some random made-up sense we'd delete. Well at least we could do see also heaves at, blah blah. Equinox ◑ 22:57, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
 * cited. At first I thought this only occurred in "heave line", but I found a couple of instances of "heave horse", and one of "heave remedy". I was unable to find anything other than an attributive use, however. Kiwima (talk) 20:26, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 01:49, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

(intransitive) : appear
(intransitive) : to become visible, like a ship over the horizon Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:23, 23 September 2020 (UTC)