follow vs heave

follow

verb
  • To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. 

  • To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling. 

  • To understand, to pay attention to. 

  • To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. 

  • To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc). 

  • To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). 

  • To be a logical consequence of something. 

  • To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person. 

  • To go or come after in a sequence. 

noun
  • In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it. 

  • The act of following another user's online activity. 

heave

verb
  • To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation. 

  • To throw, cast. 

  • To displace (a vein, stratum). 

  • To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). 

  • To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. 

  • To rise and fall. 

  • To utter with effort. 

  • To pull up with a rope or cable. 

  • To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult. 

  • To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit. 

noun
  • A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode. 

  • An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc. 

  • An effort to vomit; retching. 

  • Broken wind in horses. 

  • The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch. 

  • An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy. 

  • A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory 

How often have the words follow and heave occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )