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To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

Example: We heaved the chest-of-drawers on to the second-floor landing.

To throw, cast.

Example: The cap'n hove the body overboard.

To rise and fall.

Example: Her chest heaved with emotion.

To utter with effort.

Example: She heaved a sigh and stared out of the window.

Weight.

Heaviness, the feel of weight.

Example: A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.

The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.

The greater part or bulk of anything.

Example: The heft of the crop was spoiled.

To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.

Example: He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.

To test the weight of something by lifting it.

A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed).

An animal that has become hefted thus.

(West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.

(Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.

A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.

A part of a serial publication.