0 to lift, hold, or carry something heavy using your hands: --
1 the weight of something: --
Does Brady have the intellectual heft to run the city?
Despite their considerable heft, buffalo are agile creatures.
2 to lift, hold, or carry something heavy using your hands: --
They bring nuance and heft to their wonderfully written characters.
Loading refers to the practice of filling the shaft and head with a heavy metal (e.g. steel, lead) to provide some heft.
The one gave the brass section more heft while the other enhanced the rhythm section.
Wax, plaster, copper, or lead is used in the base to give the item strength, stability, and heft.
The poor brother agreed and hefted him up, telling him that he was learning something already, but after an hour, he sent someone to let the student down.
The rafters were assembled on the mow floor, it was hefting them into place that presented the challenge.
They were not easily replaceable because long-standing herds are hefted so the introduction of new stock to the fells would have required extensive fencing.
Even for rare sheep breeds and special sheep breeds it would not be right to try to cull out the disease in hefted sheep as an automatic response.