How do you use hefted in a sentence?

Answer 1

Heft [Saxon hefe, from hefan, to heave, to lift] is rarely used now. But we still use the adjectival form, hefty.

Heft is/was used in different ways, e.g. to lift or heave up, to raise aloft; heaviness; heaving, etc. Now we might say heave, heaved or lift, lifted, or weighty/mass/substance or use other words/expressions depending on context and meaning. Heft is an earlier form, but is still used occassionally.

Examples of usage:

* I watched the builder heft the bag of cement onto his shoulder. * Older cameras had much more heft to them. * "If one makes known to another what he hath drunk (i.e. beer that had a spider in it!), he cracks his gorge, his sides, with violent hefts." Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act II Scene I.

* "Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft." From The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser.

Answer 2

He hefted the bag to see how much it weighs.