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"Two, six, heave" is a phrase used to coordinate seamen's pulling. As used by sailors, the person at the front of the team will typically call out the...

Cornish Heave and Cornish Hugg. In Australia this was sometimes called a Cornish "hockle". The thrower puts both arms around the throwee and pulls them close...

Boatmen" (known in Russian as Эй, ухнем! [Ey, ukhnem!, "Yo, heave-ho!"], after the refrain) is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev...

Careening (also known as "heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock. It is used for cleaning...

The term is also used for a line used to pull or lower a package along a downline or jackstay. A heaving line is a rope with a weighted end which can be...

(Cornish: Omdowl Kernewek) is a form of wrestling that has been established in Cornwall for many centuries and possibly longer. It is similar to the Breton...

necessitates jumping) and pulling it down as fast and far as possible. While this crew member reaches for the next heave, a second crew member 'tails'...

following day. Pipe to any meal: Pipe All Hands, followed by long Heave Around (Mess gear), and long Pipe Down. Still: Used to call the crew to attention. This...

baseline, and let fly a "sky-hook" from 17 feet which swished in with two seconds left. Jo Jo White put up a failed desperation heave, and that was it. The...

used was/were related to hauling or heaving. "Hauling" (pulling) actions were intermittent in nature. They required a coordinated show of focused exertion...

Tribune. (Idaho). (advertisement). December 21, 1976. p. 8B. "Pull-tab cans get heave-ho". Pittsburgh Press. (Chicago Daily News Service). October 6...

the drogue after deployment. An alternative procedure during a storm is simply to "heave to". Most drogues are best deployed out of sync with the boat...

Washington on a three-point shot. The Thunder lost their final timeout challenging the call, leaving them with a desperate half-court heave that missed...

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, such as poets, novelists, children's writers, essayists, and scholars. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H...

They'll heave lines and ring buoys, hoist someone in a bosun's chair made of a knotted rope, climb other ropes, use a marlinspike to splice ropes, lift a water-filled...

2023. Retrieved October 28, 2023. "Doncic scores 49 and hits a late right-handed 3-point heave as the Mavericks beat the Nets 125-120". ESPN.com. October...

removed A sheepshank knot may be constructed as follows: ... Pull a section of rope back and lay it alongside the rope, so that the rope forms a Z approximately...

fast as long as the hitch is loaded by a steady pull.: 290  A half hitch in this configuration is sometimes used to tie strings to the bridge of a classical...

use. Heaving stick: The heaving stick was used in case the Lyle gun could not be deployed and substituted as a line throwing device. This was a most dangerous...

is shown in a sculpture in the [[Metope (architecture)|metōpē]] (μετώπη) of the Hephaisteion in Athens, where Theseus is depicted heaving Kerkyōn. The...