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 →

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 →
• “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 →
• 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 →

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.
• But ye say: 'Wherein have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and heave-offerings.
• Then he heaves a long, long sigh, flattens his hair down neatly, and goes quietly downstairs to his guests.
• «Then he heaved a deep sigh; a long, long, long sigh.»

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «heave» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.