Heaving - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: heavingHeave
To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort to lift to raise to hoist often with up as the wave heaved the boat on land...
Heave offering
An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar as the shoulder of the peace offering See Wave offering...
Sheep-heaves
Sheep-heaves. 'Small plots of pasture often in the middle of a waste . . . the soil of which may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is certainly a private property, and is leased and sold as such.'-Cooke, Inclos. Acts, 44....
Boiling
Heated to the point of bubbling heaving with bubbles in tumultuous agitation as boiling liquid surging seething swelling with heat ardor or passion...
Handspike
A bar or lever generally of wood used in a windlass or capstan for heaving anchor and in modified forms for various purposes...
Heaves
A disease of horses characterized by difficult breathing with heaving of the flank wheezing flatulency and a peculiar cough broken wind...
Heaving
A lifting or rising a swell a panting or deep sighing...
Pant
To breathe quickly or in a labored manner as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement to respire with heaving of the breast to gasp...
Eyed
Heaving such or so many eyes used in composition as sharp eyed blue eyed dull eyed sad eyed ox eyed Juno myriad eyed...
Hip lock
A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip...
- << Prev.
- Next >>