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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.]
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Heft

Heft\, n. Same as Haft, n. [Obs.] --Waller.

Heft

Heft\, n. [From Heave: cf. hefe weight. Cf. Haft.]

1. The act or effort of heaving? violent strain or exertion. [Obs.]

He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. --Shak.

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

Heft\, v. 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.]

Heft

Heft\, n.; G. pl. Hefte. [G.] A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook; also, a part of a serial publication.

The size of "hefts" will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost about 15 marks. --The Nation.
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Language Translation for : heft
Spanish: de mango…,
German: -stielig,
Japanese: －取手つきの
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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.
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