(countable, uncountable) The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
(US, countable, dialectal, uncountable) The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Importance, influence; weight.
(US, countable, dated, informal, uncountable) The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
(UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) An act of lifting; a lift.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.

(UK, US, dialectal, informal, transitive) To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).
(UK, US, dialectal, informal, transitive) To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
(UK, US, dialectal, figuratively, informal, transitive) To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
(UK, US, dialectal, informal, intransitive) To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.

simple past and past participle of heave

(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal, transitive) To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.
(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, figuratively, informal, transitive) To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.
(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, figuratively, informal, transitive) To establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; to fix, to root, to settle.
(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal, intransitive, reflexive) Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.

(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal) To cause (milk) to be held in a cow's udder until the latter becomes hard and swollen, either by not milking the cow or by stopping up the teats, to make the cow look healthy; also, to cause (a cow) to have an udder in this condition.
(Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, broadly, dialectal, informal) To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.

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