Heave has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | This ship is outfitted with a windlass to heave up the anchor. | |
| 2. | Meanwhile still stranger sights appeared by sea and land. Before the crews had time to heave their anchors, the ships of themselves made sail, and a dolphin, leaping and sporting on the waves, swam before the commander's ship as a guide; whilst on shore Chloe's goats and sheep were led along by the sweet music of the pipe, which continued sounding deliciously, though the player was still invisible. | |
| 3. | East, West and squally South-west, with a roar, / swoop down on Ocean, and the surf and sand / mix in dark eddies, and the watery floor / heave from its depths, and roll huge billows to the shore. / Then come the creak of cables and the cries / of seamen. | |
| 4. | Here plying levers, where the flooring shows / weak joists, we heave it over. |