Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hefting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Heft \Heft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hefted} ({Heft}, obs.); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Hefting}.]
1. To heave up; to raise aloft.
Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft.
--Spenser.
2. To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]
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