This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor.
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Heave
/hiːv/
Synonyms for "heave" (337 found)
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12 entrieschest heaveheave a bagheave a loadheave a sighheave the anchorheave upheave with effortheavy heavesea heavestrong heavesudden heaveviolent heave
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Meanwhile still stranger sights appeared by sea and land. Before the crews had time to heave their anchors, the ships of themselves made sail, and a dolphin, leaping and sporting on the waves, swam before the commander's ship as a guide; whilst on shore Chloe's goats and sheep were led along by the sweet music of the pipe, which continued sounding deliciously, though the player was still invisible.
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East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen.
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Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over.
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