Definition of "heavings" [heavings]

• Plural form of heaving. (noun)

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• "I prefer scenes with extended foreplay and think the idea of 'heavings' and 'throbbings' is best left to individual imagination."
• "He chose as the party's epitaph a statement from a Massachusetts senator, Rufus Choate: "Any thing more low, obscene and feculent the manifold heavings of history have not cast up.""
• "There were convulsive heavings of the sphere and it rolled over and over in the huge cavity of a mouth, battering its two occupants against bunks, instrument tables and walls."