heaves
Britishnoun
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Also called: broken wind. a chronic respiratory disorder of animals of the horse family caused by allergies and dust
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slang an attack of vomiting or retching
Example Sentences
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Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good; Heaves high his head heroic hardihood.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
In her stainless hands The sacrificial cake she holds; her breast Heaves, with approaching agony oppressed.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
In many a heap the ground Heaves, as if Ruin in a frantic mood Had done its utmost.
From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan
Heaves is usually associated with disorder of the function of digestion or to an error in the choice of feed.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
He listens, thinks himself the lover, Heaves from his stomach wheezy sighs; He likes to feel his heart's a-breaking.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert
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