if a ship heaves to, it stops moving. The past tense and past participle is hove to.
Keep going round to starboard and keep her astern till you stop, then heave to.
My lungs heave to take it all - all the air there is - and I cough and choke and gag.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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