LekhoriLekhoriAn effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.
An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so, that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end
From Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap...
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A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.