subs. (old).—1. The bosom; the PANTER (q.v.).
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HEAVER. A breast.
1725. A New Canting Dictionary, s.v.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
2. (American).—A person in love: i.e., sighing (= heaving the bosom, or making play with the HEAVER) like a furnace.
3. (old).—A thief: cf., HEAVE (verbal sense 2).
