Meaning of Heft | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
   countable, uncountable
2. A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal
3. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal
4. The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
   US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
5. A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal
6. A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.
   Northern-England, Scotland, UK, US, dialectal, informal
7. Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
8. Importance, influence; weight.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
9. The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
   US, countable, dated, informal, uncountable
10. An act of lifting; a lift.
    UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
11. An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.”

“But Durindan at laſt fell vvith ſuch heft, / Full on the circle of Rogeros ſhield, / That halfe vvay through the Argent byrd it cleft, / And pierſt the core of male [i.e., mail] that vvas vvithin, / And found a paſſage to the verie skin.”

“I pictured him doing violence to his better nature, and only wanting a good heft of circumstance to enable him to throw off his load of deviltry.”

“Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft to pull itself into a sphere.”

“The skull [of a Hubbs' beaked whale] was an awkward armload. Bizarrely, its size, shape, and long, narrow bill brought to mind the head of Big Bird from Sesame Street, but with none of bird-bone's lightness: It had heft and density.”

“The man had been carried out of the yard while the fire was still burning; […] Public opinion was much divided, some holding that it would go hard with a man of his age and heft; but the common belief seemed to be that he was of that sort "as'd take a deal o'killin'," and that he would be none the worse for such a fall as that.”

“"Look at the heft of 'n [a baby]," said the proud father, "entirely drags ye down, Miss Sybil, 'e do."”

“Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.”

“He's got a good voice, and reads well; but come to a sermon—wal, ain't no gret heft in't.”

“Put more baldly, the reason why Republicans and British Conservatives started giving each other copies of Atlas Shrugged in the 80s was that [Ayn] Rand seemed to grant intellectual heft to the prevailing ethos of the time.”

“The turkey's nest was islanded with a fragrant swath,—the "heft" of the crop noted and rejoiced over,—[…]”

“He run to South America or somewheres, taking the heft of the firm's money with him.”

“Deigning no answer, the sturdy parson seized the bigger of the two ash staves, and laying the butt of the other for a fulcrum, gave the stuck wheel such a powerful heft, that the whole cart rattled, and the crates began to dance.”

“It was a tremendous heft to raise the boat on to the wall and push it over, but somehow she managed it; […]”

“[I]f one preſent / Th'abhor'd Ingredient [a spider in a drink] to his eye, make knovvne / Hovv he hath drunke, he cracks his gorge, his ſides / VVith violent Hefts: I haue drunke, and ſeene the Spider.”

“The socket of the rim lock tore off to one good heft of the shoulder, and we were in.”

“[S]he came to fetch her [bairn] out of ill haft and waur guiding.”

“Such an organ is now to be published by the house of J[oseph] Ricker, in Giessen, Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik, edited by Dr. Mark Lidzbarki.^([sic]) […] The size of the "hefts" will depend on the material requiring attention, and the annual volume is to cost about 15 marks.”

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