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Heft   /hɛft/   Listen
Heft

verb
(past & past part. hefted, obs. heft; pres. part. hefting)
1.
Lift or elevate.  Synonyms: heave, heave up, heft up.
2.
Test the weight of something by lifting it.
noun
1.
The property of being large in mass.  Synonyms: heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness.



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"Heft" Quotes from Famous Books



... baby er my own, an' couldn' be roun' ter look after 'im. An' dis chile is a rale quality chile, he is,—I never seed a baby wid sech fine hair fer his age, ner sech blue eyes, ner sech a grip, ner sech a heft. W'y, dat chile mus' weigh 'bout twenty-fo' poun's, an' he not but six mont's ole. Does dat gal w'at does de nussin' w'iles I'm gone ten' ter dis chile ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt

... roused himself—"Hech, sir!" he cried, "I wish you had been wi' us last night. It was just a joy to feel the clouds laying their cheeks to the floods, and the sea laying its shouther to the shore; I sat a' night wi' the helm-heft in my hand, singing o'er and o'er again King David's grand ...
— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr

... Die Entstehung des Geschlechtscharakters (The Origin of Sexual Differentiation), Archiv fuer Gynaekologie, vol. lxx., Heft 2. p. 268. ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll

... I don't care," said Sam. "It was all that dirty little sneak that made the trouble; but never mind, it's all right. The only thing that worries me is how you sent me flying. I'm bigger an' stronger an' older, I can heft more an' work harder, but you throwed me like a bag o' shavings, I only wish I ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

... pairs, All bodin in feir of weir;[122] In jacks, and scryppis, and bonnets of steel, Their legs were chainit to the heel,[123] Frawart was their affeir:[124] Some upon other with brands beft,[125] Some jaggit others to the heft, With knives that sharp ...
— English Satires • Various


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