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heave-o

heave-o is the alternative form of heave-ho.

Meaning of heave-ho

Interjection

  1. An exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope.
    • Heave ho! up they hoisted their prize, dripping with moisture, and festooned with verdant water-moss.1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “A Bell's Biography”, in The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales
    Synonyms:
    yeave-ho

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Forms of heave-o

pluralheave-os

Questions about heave-o

What is heave-o the alternative form of?
Heave-o is the alternative form of heave-ho.

Words near heave-o in the dictionary

  1. heave-ho
  2. heave-hoed
  3. heave-hoes
  4. heave-hoing
  5. heave-hos
  6. heave-o
  7. heave-os
  8. heave-shoulder
  9. heave-shoulders
  10. heave-to
  11. heaved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heave-o (page history and authors); heave-ho (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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