weaveth
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Verb
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(archaic) (weave)
weave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , Swedish ” .
Verb
To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- This loom weaves yarn into sweaters.
To spin a cocoon or a web.
- Spiders weave beautiful but deadly webs.
To unite by close connection or intermixture.
* Shakespeare
- This weaves itself, perforce, into my business.
* Byron
- these words, thus woven into song
To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
- to weave the plot of a story
Noun
(en noun )
A type or way of weaving.
- That rug has a very tight weave .
Human or artificial hair worn to alter one’s appearance, either to supplement or to cover the natural hair.
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) veifa” ‘move around, wave’, related to Latin ”vibrare .
Verb
(weav)
To move by turning and twisting.
- The drunk weaved into another bar.
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To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic.
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Weave a circle round him thrice.
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heaveth
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heave
English
Verb
(archaic) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
* Herrick
- Here a little child I stand, / Heaving up my either hand.
To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- We heaved the chest-of-doors on to the second-floor landing.
To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
* Alexander Pope
- And the huge columns heave into the sky.
* Gray
- where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap
* E. Everett
- the heaving sods of Bunker Hill
(transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
- The wind heaved the waves.
To rise and fall.
- Her chest heaved with emotion.
* Prior
- Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves .
* Byron
- the heaving plain of ocean
To utter with effort.
- She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.
* Shakespeare
- The wretched animal heaved forth such groans.
To throw, cast.
- The cap’n hove the body overboard.
(nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- Heave up the anchor there, boys!
(ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- to heave the ship ahead
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To make an effort to vomit; to retch.
To vomit.
- The smell of the old cheese was enough to make you heave .
To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
* Atterbury
- The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a reformation ever since Wyclif’s days.
Derived terms
*heave in sight
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Noun
(en noun )
An effort to raise something, as a weight, or one’s self, or to move something heavy.
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An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like.
A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
(nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare with pitch.
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