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means To lift, pull, or throw something heavy with a great, straining effort — or to rise and fall slowly and powerfully, like a chest breathing hard or a ship on a swell.

from From Old English 'hebban,' meaning to lift or raise, a word so old it traces back to the ancient Germanic root '*hafjan' — the same deep root that gave English 'heavy' and is a cousin of Latin 'capere' (to seize or take), which also fathered words like 'capture.' The sense of 'heaving' as a slow, laborious swell — the sea heaving, a chest heaving with sobs — grew naturally out of that original image of strained, muscular lifting.