The word 'heft' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to lift or carry something heavy, or to assess the weight or mass of something. Examples: 1. I could feel the weight of the box as I hefted it onto my shoulders. 2. The truck driver struggled to heft the heavy furniture onto the back of his truck. 3. She carefully hefted the gold bar in her hands, trying to estimate its value. 4. The butcher hefted the meat onto the scale to determine its price. 5. The farmer hefted the bag of grain onto his shoulder and walked towards the barn. 6. The strongman easily hefted the massive barbell over his head to the amazement of the crowd. 7. The soldiers hefted their rifles and prepared to march into battle. 8. After a long day of hiking, he was too tired to heft his backpack any further. 9. Grandma hefted her pot of soup off the stove and served it to the family for dinner. 10. The blacksmith hefted the hammer and struck the red-hot metal with precision and strength.
Those of France, Luxembourg and Chile added enough western heft to give even a nervous Australia a level of comfort about voting yes.
But a verdant sprawl of 54 acres on the hill's crest is not available for money of any heft or colour.
For Merkel it is essentially a question of the political heft and power of the EU, which would be hugely damaged if not destroyed if such a significant power as Britain were to withdraw.
Swinson is an impressive athlete but off the pace here 5 Jim Hamilton 5/10 Scotland's enforcer was always in the thick of things and gives the Scottish pack some much needed heft but his discipline let him down in the first half 6 Ryan Wilson 7/10 He may be a natural No8 but is an effective ball-carrier and one of Scotland's best performers on a night when few rose to the challenge.
Mandelson's new heft was evident in a series of interventions he made to help manufacturing in the election run-up, including the £80m loan to enable Sheffield Forgemasters to produce specialist steel for the nuclear sector.
Weinberg says that the Whitney will add cultural heft to a the meatpacking district.
Dugdale admitted, with disarming honesty at a hustings in Glasgow, that she was "not looking forward" to sparring with SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon every week and Murphy's debating heft will certainly be missed in the chamber.
The Murdoch relatives see to it that Cameron is better fitted to Murdoch's taste, and Cameron helps give the Murdoch family the heft and clout and social position to help them stand up to the old man.
Since his victory in the Scottish Labour leadership election last Saturday, his timetable has been carefully choreographed, with speeches, events and photo opportunities almost daily, exhibiting an organisational heft and dynamism that the party has been wholly lacking of late.
Mirren matches him, though, despite a slightly thankless and less rounded role to which she brings all her heft and leverage; finally, however, she is the film's – hell, both films' – secret heroine.
It's atmospheric but not exactly ambient because it's too jarring to be subsumed under that rubric and has a considerable emotional heft.
