heft

Plural: hefts

Noun

the property of being large in mass
The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
Importance, influence; weight.
The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
An act of lifting; a lift.
An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.
A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.
A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.
A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.

Verb

lift or elevate
test the weight of something by lifting it
To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).
To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
To evaluate or test (someone or something).
To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.
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.
To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.
To establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; to fix, to root, to settle.
Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.
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.
To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.

Examples

"A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft."
"He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck."

Origin / Etymology

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, quality, state of being, etc., forming nouns), by analogy with the development of weft from weven (modern English weave), etc. (also compare words like cleft from cleave, and theft from thieve, where the development occurred in Old English or earlier languages). The English word is analysable as heave + -t (suffix forming nouns from verbs).
The verb is probably derived from the noun.

Synonyms

heave, heave up, heft up, heftiness, hoist, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness

Scrabble Score: 10

heft is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
heft is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
heft is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

heft is a valid Words With Friends word