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# heave

«heave» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **lift, pull** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

lift, pull

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

to lift, pull or push something heavy with great effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heave/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today heave mostly means lift with effort; in these texts it also means an offering lifted up to God, and 'heave to' is a sailing term for stopping a ship.

### examples

- And the right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out of your sacrifices of peace-offerings. (Torah LEV.7.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heave/#x1)
- “Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we’re parted by a shot We’re sure to meet below!” (Peter Pan) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heave/#x2)
- And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his. (Torah NUM.5.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heave/#x3)

### primary record

heave

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 16 (Torah 9, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.8 (Torah alone 21.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And the right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out of your sacrifices of peace-offerings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.167/)
- [But ye say: 'Wherein have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and heave-offerings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MAL.55/)
- [Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and goes quietly downstairs to his guests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/1/)
- [«Then he heaved a deep sigh; a long, long, long sigh.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heave» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/H/heave/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.