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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--heft This week's theme: short words. heft (heft) noun 1. Weight; heaviness. 2. Importance. verb tr. 1. To test the weight of something by lifting. 2. To heave or hoist. [After heave, on the pattern of cleave/cleft, leave/left, thieve/theft, weave/weft, etc. From Middle English heven (to lift, take).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Turning 40 once meant winding down, but for thousands of Canadian women, it means winding up: hefting barbells, hitting the books, embracing whole new lives." Deborah Jones; Middle-aged? Who, Me?; Chatelaine (Toronto, Canada); Apr 1, 1998. X-Bonus Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)

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