(transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
(transitive) To throw, cast.
(intransitive) To rise and fall.
(transitive) To utter with effort.
(transitive) To pull up with a rope or cable.
(archaic, transitive) To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
(intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
(transitive) To displace (a vein, stratum).
(archaic, transitive) To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
(ambitransitive) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
(intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
(intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
(British, obsolete) To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

(countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
(countable, uncountable) 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, etc.
(countable, uncountable) A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
(countable, uncountable) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
(countable, uncountable) An effort to vomit; retching.
(attributive, countable, rare, uncountable) Broken wind in horses.
(countable, uncountable) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

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