HEFT

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Same as Haft, n. [Obs.] Waller.

2.
n.

The act or effort of heaving [Obs.] He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak.

3.
n.

Weight; ponderousness. [Colloq.] A man of his age and heft. T. Hughes.

4.
n.

The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. [Colloq. U. S.] J. Pickering.

5.
v.

To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.

6.
v.

To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]

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