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  • verb Present participle of heft.

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Examples

  • There was the usual lingering hesitation which is apt to attend the taking-up of any regular or monotonous performance, shown in this instance in the prolonged scrutiny of a pick's point, the solemn selection of a shovel, or the "hefting" or weighing of a tapping-iron or drill.

    Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869

  • "hefting" and sometimes weighing of birds on the barn scales.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

  • "'Well, Ben,' says Sam, kind of hefting his sword out from between his knees, 'as your superior officer I could court-martial you for attempted cowardice and desertion.

    Options O. Henry 1886

  • "I'll never own a Kindle," she said, hefting a copy of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco from her purse.

    Women 2.0: Geek Girls Unite! Women 2.0 2011

  • So it's no problem carrying their luggage and hefting it into the trunk.

    Gillian Clark: They're Only Happy When It Rains Gillian Clark 2011

  • And I'm knackered after three days of hefting and shlepping and sorting and shifting.

    Off to the USA! karenmiller 2010

  • He flipped out the inner circle and, hefting the lance, feinted at the ocean.

    The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • "I'll never own a Kindle," she said, hefting a copy of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco from her purse.

    Women 2.0: Geek Girls Unite! Women 2.0 2011

  • “Yup,” said the surgeon, hefting them, “We can get rid of about 5-6 pounds there.”

    Requiem For A Boob | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • So it's no problem carrying their luggage and hefting it into the trunk.

    Gillian Clark: They're Only Happy When It Rains Gillian Clark 2011

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