heft

IPA: hˈɛft

(uncountable) 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.
(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.
A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
A part of a serial publication.

(transitive) To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
(transitive) To test the weight of something by lifting it.
(transitive, Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.

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