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Webster 1913 Edition
Heft
1.
The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
[Obs.]
He craks his gorge, his sides,
With violent
With violent
hefts
. Shakespeare
2.
Weight; ponderousness.
[Colloq.]
A man of his age and
heft
. T. Hughes.
3.
The greater part or bulk of anything;
as, the
. heft
of the crop was spoiled[Colloq. U. S.]
J. Pickering.
Heft
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hefted
(Heft
, obs
.); p. pr. & vb. n.
Hefting
.] 1.
To heave up; to raise aloft.
Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he
heft
. Spenser.
2.
To prove or try the weight of by raising.
[Colloq.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Heft
HEFT
, n.1.
Heaving; effort. He cracks his gorge, his sides.
With violent hefts. [Not used.]
2.
Weight; ponderousness. [This use is common in popular language in America. And we sometimes hear it used as a verb, as, to heft, to lift for the purpose of feeling or judging of the weight.]3.
A handle; a haft. [Not used.]