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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



... been above three and a half inches long, by one and a quarter wide, at its broadest part. The heft, where it had been hollowed to hold ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... Babylonische Texte, Heft VI., B, of which K. B., iv., pp. 200-3, gives transcriptions and translations of two. Kohler-Peiser discuss eight in Aus Babylonischen Rechtsleben and add one more. Strassmaier published two from the Liverpool ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... said in a strangely hushed voice, "Woman, I've heard tell that you have a hankerin' for curiosities and old-timey things. I keep a few handy so's I don't get above my raisin'." He reached under the counter. "Here, woman, heft this!" He placed in my hands Devil Anse's long-barreled gun. "Scrutinize them notches on the barrel. That there first one is Harmon McCoy. Year of sixty-three," he ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... was called by Professor Hensen to P. E. Muller's work on Humus in 'Tidsskrift for Skovbrug,' Band iii. Heft 1 and 2, Copenhagen, 1878. He had, however, no opportunity of consulting Muller's work. Dr. Muller published a second paper in 1884 in the same periodical—a Danish journal of forestry. His results have also been published in German, in a volume entitled 'Studien uber die naturlichen ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin
... a look!" I breaks in. "Does this one size up like he was a child eater? Here, heft him once." And I ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford


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