LekhoriLekhoriThe feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.
A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.
[S]he came to fetch her [bairn] out of ill haft and waur guiding.
A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English heft (“heaviness; something heavy, a weight”), from heven (“to lift, raise; to make an effort to lift or raise, heave”) + -th (suffix denoting a condition,...
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To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
[H]e took up a root or two [potatoes] here and there, and "hefted it," (that is to say, poised it carefully to judge the weight, as one does a letter for the post) and then stroked the sleek skin lovingly, and put it down gingerly for fear of any bruise.
simple past and past participle of heave
To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.
For I had been "hefting" (as the business is called in our Galloway land) a double score of lambs which had just been brought from a neighbouring lowland farm to summer upon our scanty upland pastures. Now it is the nature of sheep to return if they can to their mother-hill, or, at least, to stray farther and farther off, seeking some well-known landmark. So, till such new-comers grow satisfied and "heft" (or attach) themselves to the soil, they must be watched carefully both night and day.
To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.
[I]t may be as well that Alan and you do not meet till he is hefted as it were to his new calling.
To cause (milk) to be held in a cow's udder until the latter becomes hard and swollen, either by not milking the cow or by stopping up the teats, to make the cow look healthy; also, to cause (a cow) to have an udder in this condition.