Definition of "heft" []

• Weight; heaviness; bulk. (noun)
• To lift (something) in order to judge or estimate its weight. (verb-transitive)
• To hoist (something); heave. (verb-transitive)
• To have a given weight; weigh. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The manager continues to see value in heft, although muscle can be accompanied by subtlety."
• "It didn't compare in heft to what a Marine carried on an amphibious landing."
• "He bade the Scrivener write the tale of the Men of the Sickle at an hundred and a half, and his folk fared past the War-leader joyously, being one half of them bowmen; and fell shooters they were; the other half were girt with swords, and bore withal long ashen staves armed with great blades curved inwards, which weapon they called heft-sax."