5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Heft \Heft\, n.
Same as {Haft}, n. [Obs.] --Waller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
heft
n : the property of being large in mass [syn: {heftiness}, {massiveness},
{ponderousness}, {ponderosity}]
v 1: lift with difficulty [syn: {heave}, {heave up}, {heft up}]
2: test the weight of something by lifting it
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