heave vs spew

heave

noun
  • An effort to vomit; retching. 

  • 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. 

  • 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 

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

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

spew

noun
  • Vomit. 

  • Nonsense or lies. 

  • A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather. 

  • Ejaculate or ejaculation. 

  • Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing. 

  • Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint. 

verb
  • To ejaculate. 

  • To be forcibly ejected. 

  • To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning. 

  • To eject forcibly and in a stream, 

  • To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. 

  • To be written or spoken voluminously. 

  • To vomit. 

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