heave-ho

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.

A cry of heave-ho.

Over the water came the clank and rattle of chains and the "Heave-ho!" of the sailors getting ready for departure.

The slow, rhythmic movement of the gang to the steady “Heave ho” began again.

An ejection; a forced removal; a dismissal (as from a job or relationship).

When I was a kid—well, more of a kid than I am now—I used to believe he really was a bishop—unfrocked, of course, or ungaitered, or whatever they call it when they give a bishop the heave-ho.

"My sister, may she rest in peace, might have had a much better life if she had given her husband, Ernie, the heave-ho before she married him," Florence said.

To pull forcefully.

They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours;