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heft

  [heft]
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–noun
1. weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
2. significance or importance.
3. Archaic. the bulk or main part.
–verb (used with object)
4. to test the weight of by lifting and balancing: He hefted the spear for a few moments, and then flung it at the foe.
5. to heave; hoist.
Origin:
1550–60; heave + -t, var. of -th 1

Related forms:
hefter, noun
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heft   (hěft)   
n.  Weight; heaviness; bulk.
v.   heft·ed, heft·ing, hefts

v.   tr.

  1. To lift (something) in order to judge or estimate its weight.

  2. To hoist (something); heave.

v.   intr.
To have a given weight; weigh.

[Middle English, from heven, to lift; see heave.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

heft 
c.1445, "weight, heaviness," from heave on analogy of thieve/thief, weave/weft, etc.; also infl. by heft, obsolete pp. of heave. The verb meaning "to lift" is first recorded c.1661. Hefty is from 1867.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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