to heave in sight

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To come in sight; to appear. This nautical phrase appears to have originated in the fact that an approaching vessel appears to raise or heave itself above the horizon.


A Carolina waggoner had just crossed the rail-road, when the engine hove in sight with the cars attached.--Crockett, Tour down East. p. 16.

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