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Heaving

//ˈhiːvɪŋ// adj, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Crowded with people. informal

    "2006, Tim Downie, "Ride Report: Bealach-na-Ba", uk.rec.cycling http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.cycling/browse_thread/thread/af08b5a62b82262c/192dcd8f8dca7b8e?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=7#192dcd8f8dca7b8e Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow, the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear."

Noun
  1. 1
    An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.

    "No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene.""

  2. 2
    throwing something heavy (with great effort) wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of lifting something with great effort wordnet
  4. 4
    breathing heavily (as after exertion) wordnet
  5. 5
    an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of heave form-of, gerund, participle, present

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