heaving
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
(informal) crowded with people
* 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.
* 2006, “Krusty”, “Krusty’s Holiday”, uk.rec.motorcycles, [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/browse_thread/thread/f3c43a458f94a29b/bdff0eb3decbb853?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=99#]
- The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared.
* 2007, “Jamie”, “Hyde Park Calling 2007”, “classic rock magazine readers”, [http://groups.google.com/group/classic-rock-mag-readers/browse_thread/thread/7a5dc153e8401fb9/e32feaabd9dc9423?lnk=st&q=%22was+heaving%22&rnum=8#]
- At this time it was pissing down and by the time Joe Satriani cam on the tent was heaving with people just coming in to keep dry.
Noun
(en noun )
An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved
* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=Edgar Allan Poe, title=The Raven, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=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.” }}
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Thomas De Quincey, title=The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols), chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Owen Wister, title=The Dragon of Wantley, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings . }}
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reaving
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