Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HEAVE, n. [heev.]

1. A rising or swell; an exertion or effort upward. None could guess whether the next heave of the earthquake would settle or swallow them. Dryden.
2. A rising swell, or distention, as of the breast. These profound heaves. Shak.
3. An effort to vomit.
4. An effort to rise. Hudibras.