heave-ho

[ heev-hoh ]

/ ˈhivˈhoʊ /

noun Informal.

an act of rejection, dismissal, or forcible ejection: The bartender gave the noisy drunk the old heave-ho.

QUIZZES

HEED THE VOX POPULI, AND TAKE THIS WORD OF THE DAY QUIZ!

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

a granular metamorphic rock.

a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.

a hobble or fetter for a horse or other animal.

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of heave-ho

noun use of phrase heave ho, Middle English havehou, hevelow

Words nearby heave-ho

heaume, heave, heave down, heave into sight, heave to, heave-ho, heave-ho, give the, heave-off hinge, heaven, heaven knows, heaven-born

Definition for heave ho (2 of 2)

heave

[ heev ]

/ hiv /

verb (used with object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

to raise or lift with effort or force; hoist: to heave a heavy ax.

to throw, especially to lift and throw with effort, force, or violence: to heave an anchor overboard; to heave a stone through a window.

Nautical.

to move into a certain position or situation: to heave a vessel aback.
to move in a certain direction: Heave the capstan around! Heave up the anchor!

to utter laboriously or painfully: to heave a sigh.

to cause to rise and fall with or as with a swelling motion: to heave one's chest.

to vomit; throw up: He heaved his breakfast before noon.

to haul or pull on (a rope, cable, line, etc.), as with the hands or a capstan: Heave the anchor cable!

verb (used without object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

to rise and fall in rhythmically alternate movements: The ship heaved and rolled in the swelling sea.

to breathe with effort; pant: He sat there heaving and puffing from the effort.

to vomit; retch.

to rise as if thrust up, as a hill; swell or bulge: The ground heaved and small fissures appeared for miles around.

to pull or haul on a rope, cable, etc.

to push, as on a capstan bar.

Nautical.

to move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation: heave about; heave alongside; heave in stays.
(of a vessel) to rise and fall, as with a heavy beam sea.

noun

an act or effort of heaving.

a throw, toss, or cast.

Geology. the horizontal component of the apparent displacement resulting from a fault, measured in a vertical plane perpendicular to the strike.

the rise and fall of the waves or swell of a sea.

heaves, (used with a singular verb) Also called broken wind. Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, similar to asthma in human beings, characterized by difficult breathing.

Verb Phrases

heave down, Nautical. to careen (a vessel).

heave out, Nautical.

to shake loose (a reef taken in a sail).
to loosen (a sail) from its gaskets in order to set it.

heave to,

Nautical. to stop the headway of (a vessel), especially by bringing the head to the wind and trimming the sails so that they act against one another.
to come to a halt.

Origin of heave

before 900; Middle English heven, variant (with -v- from simple past tense and past participle) of hebben, Old English hebban; cognate with German heben, Old Norse hefja, Gothic hafjan; akin to Latin capere to take

SYNONYMS FOR heave

1 elevate. See raise.

2 hurl, pitch, fling, cast, sling.

11 surge, billow.

OTHER WORDS FROM heave

heav·er, nounheave·less, adjectiveun·heaved, adjective

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

British Dictionary definitions for heave ho (1 of 2)

heave-ho

sentence substitute

a sailors' cry, as when hoisting anchor

noun

informal dismissal, as from employment

British Dictionary definitions for heave ho (2 of 2)

heave

/ (hiːv) /

verb heaves, heaving or heaved or mainly nautical hove

(tr) to lift or move with a great effort

(tr) to throw (something heavy) with effort

to utter (sounds, sighs, etc) or breathe noisily or unhappilyto heave a sigh

to rise and fall or cause to rise and fall heavily

(past tense and past participle hove) nautical

to move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or positionto heave in sight
(intr) (of a vessel) to pitch or roll

(tr) to displace (rock strata, mineral veins, etc) in a horizontal direction

(intr) to retch

noun

the act or an instance of heaving

a fling

the horizontal displacement of rock strata at a fault

Derived forms of heave

heaver, noun

Word Origin for heave

Old English hebban; related to Old Norse hefja, Old Saxon hebbian, Old High German heffen to raise, Latin capere to take, Sanskrit kapatī two hands full

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

MEANINGS

WORD GAMES

LEARN

WRITING

WORD OF THE DAY

heave-ho

noun Informal.

QUIZZES

HEED THE VOX POPULI, AND TAKE THIS WORD OF THE DAY QUIZ!

Origin of heave-ho

Words nearby heave-ho

Definition for heave ho (2 of 2)

verb (used with object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

verb (used without object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

noun

Verb Phrases

Origin of heave

SYNONYMS FOR heave

OTHER WORDS FROM heave

British Dictionary definitions for heave ho (1 of 2)

sentence substitute

noun

British Dictionary definitions for heave ho (2 of 2)

verb heaves, heaving or heaved or mainly nautical hove

noun

Derived forms of heave

Word Origin for heave

MEANINGS

WORD GAMES

LEARN

WRITING

WORD OF THE DAY

heave-ho

noun Informal.

QUIZZES

HEED THE VOX POPULI, AND TAKE THIS WORD OF THE DAY QUIZ!

Origin of heave-ho

Words nearby heave-ho

Definition for heave ho (2 of 2)

verb (used with object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

verb (used without object), heaved or (especially Nautical) hove; heav·ing.

noun

Verb Phrases

Origin of heave

SYNONYMS FOR heave

OTHER WORDS FROM heave

Words related to heave ho

British Dictionary definitions for heave ho (1 of 2)

sentence substitute

noun

British Dictionary definitions for heave ho (2 of 2)

verb heaves, heaving or heaved or mainly nautical hove

noun

Derived forms of heave

Word Origin for heave