heft
heft
Definition
heft (heft)
transitive verb
- to lift or heave
- to try to determine the weight of by lifting
intransitive verb
to weigh
heft
Usage Examples
Object
- flock: There were grazing rights on the Common where he kept a hefted flock of Rough Fell Sheep.
- sheep: We are not, however, prepared to agree to exempt hefted sheep from the 3km sheep cull.
- ewe: SNH has now removed substantial numbers of hefted ewes from the hills of Cairnsmore on the pretext of looking after Scotland's natural heritage.
- sword: The Warrior hefts a large sword around with relative ease and can mow down other classes like a knife through butter.
- beauty: Opening the box and hefting this little beauty for the first time makes a real impact.
- system: This will lead to sheep roaming further than their usual range, and the hefting system might be lost altogether.
Converse of object
- have: But the issue did not have heft, did not wrap itself in the shadowy shroud of the father.
- want: If you want a little more heft in a CO2 pistol it's perfect.
- add: Piano and strings add heft, but none of it comes off as overblown or pompous.
- get: How you get the heft back onto the hills in a common sense way.
Adjective modifier
- more: Don't we want our icons to have more clout, more heft, more angles?
- new: New heft gives into you leaving county appear to of it with.
- great: But power is configured to deliver greatest heft in the mid-range.
- catholic: But it has some venerable apostolic and catholic heft behind it.
- emotional: This story of the death of childhood may be brief and brutal, but its emotional heft will linger.
