give someone the heave Definition

heave
verb heaved (past tense, past participle), hove (past tense, past participle in sense 6 and for heave into sight and heave to), heaving (present participle)

1. To lift or pull with great effort.
2. colloq
To throw something heavy.
intr
3. To rise and fall heavily or rhythmically.

Thesaurus: bob, pitch, lurch, reel, sway, swell, palpitate, breathe, swirl, ebb and flow, undulate; Antonym: rest, lie still.
4. To make something rise and fall heavily or rhythmically.
intr
5. colloq
To retch or vomit.
6. geol.
To displace (a vein or stratum) in a horizontal direction.

noun

1. An act of heaving.

Thesaurus: cast, fling, hurl, throw, toss, wing.
2. geol.
A horizontal displacement of a vein or stratum at a fault.

Derivative: heaver
noun

Idiom: get the heave

colloq
To be dismissed or rejected.

Idiom: give someone the heave

colloq
To dismiss or reject them.

Idiom: heave a sigh

To sigh heavily or with effort.

Idiom: heave into sight

To move in a particular direction.

Idiom: heave ho!

A sailors' call to exertion, as in heaving the anchor.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hebban.

Phrasal Verb: heave to

Said of a ship: to stop or make it stop while at sea.