OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22400

heft

/hɛft/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pesadez
The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
A high quality hammer should have good balance and heft.
I pictured him doing violence to his better nature, and only wanting a good heft of circumstance to enable him to throw off his load of deviltry.
peso
The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
"Look at the heft of 'n [a baby]," said the proud father, "entirely drags ye down, Miss Sybil, 'e do."
The man had been carried out of the yard while the fire was still burning; […] Public opinion was much divided, some holding that it would go hard with a man of his age and heft; b…
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