heave handsomely

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• Handsomely

  ·adv In a handsome manner. II. Handsomely ·adv Carefully; in shipshape style. ...

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• handsomely

  Signifies steadily or leisurely; as, "lower away handsomely," when required to be done gradually and...

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• Heave

  ·vt To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom. II. Heave ·vi To be thrown up or raised; to ...

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• to heave

  To rob. To heave a case; to rob a house. To heave a bough; to rob a booth. CANT. ...

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• Heave offering

  ·- An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offe...

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• Heave offering

  Heb. terumah, (Ex. 29:27) means simply an offering, a present, including all the offerings made by t...

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• heave, to

  To throw anything overboard. To cast, as heaving the log or the lead. Also, to drag, prize, or purch...

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• heave hearty

  Heave strong and with a will. ...

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• ease off handsomely!

  ,or ease away there! To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully. ...

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• to heave in sight

  To come in sight; to appear. This nautical phrase appears to have originated in the fact that an app...

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• heave about, to

  To go upon the other tack suddenly. ...

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• heave and paul

  Is the order to turn the capstan or windlass till the paul may be put in, by which it is prevented f...

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• heave and rally!

  An encouraging order to the men at the capstan to heave with spirit, with a rush, and thereby force ...

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• heave and set

  The ship's motion in rising and falling to the waves when at anchor. ...

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• heave out there!

  The order to hasten men from their hammocks. ...

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• heave short, to

  To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor, or sufficiently near it for sai...

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• heave the lead

  To take soundings with the hand lead-line. "Get a cast of the lead," with the deep-sea lead and line...

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• heave the log

  Determine the ship's velocity by the log line and glass. ...

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• heave-to, to

  To put a vessel in the position of lying-to, by adjusting her sails so as to counteract each other, ...

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• yeo-heave-yeoing

  The chant or noise made at the windlass and purchase-falls in a merchantman, to cheer and lighten la...

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• lower handsomely, lower cheerly

  Are opposed to each other; the former being the order to lower gradually, and the latter to lower ex...

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• heave and a-wash

  An encouraging call when the ring of the anchor rises to the surface, and the stock stirs the water....

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• heave and a-weigh

  Signifies that the next effort will start the anchor from its bed, and make it a-trip. "Heave and a-...

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• heave and in sight

  A notice given by the boatswain to the crew when the anchor is drawn up so near the surface of the w...

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• heave of the sea

  The power that the swell of the sea exerts upon a ship in driving her out of, or faster on in, her c...

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• capstan, to heave at the

  To urge it round, by pushing against the bars, as already described. ...

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