League after league the earth lies flat, heaves a little, is flat again.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— LIFT, RAISE
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Macmillan
— to push, pull, or lift a heavy object using a lot of effort
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Other Word Forms
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Usage
1 use of ‘heaves’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster