heft🔊

Weight.

Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness.

(figurative) Influence; importance.

The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.

(US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.

To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.

To test the weight of something by lifting it.

(Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).

An animal that has become hefted thus.

(West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.

(Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.

A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.

A part of a serial publication.