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A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

ing a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.

A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

The heaves.

A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

To strike; to thump; to pound. [Obs.] Diken, or delven, or dingen upon sheaves. Piers Plowman.

lled from the form of the body. -- Fiddle block (Naut.), a long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block. Knight. -- Fiddle bow, fiddlestick. -- Fiddle fish (Zoöl.), the angel fish. -- Fiddle head, an ornament on a ship's bow, curv…

or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. Prof. Wilson. To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] G. Eliot.

all allowance. -- Grain binder, an attachment to a harvester for binding the grain into sheaves. -- Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. -- Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of se…

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett.

One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.

Having the heaves.

The man who heaves the lead. Totten.

A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.

A pulley block containing several sheaves. Knight.

A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.

, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay.

A reaping machine containing mechanism for binding the grain into sheaves.