Usually means: Assessing weight by lifting it.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word HEFTING:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hefting: Merriam-Webster
  2. hefting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hefting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hefting, hefting: Wordnik
  5. hefting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hefting: Wiktionary
  7. Hefting, hefting: Dictionary.com
  8. hefting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Hefting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Hefting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. hefting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hefting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hefting: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hefting: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heft)

noun:  (uncountable)
noun:  The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
noun:  (dated except UK, dialectal and US) The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
noun:  (figurative) Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
noun:  (figurative) Importance, influence; weight.
noun:  (US, informal, dated) The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
noun:  (countable)
noun:  (UK, dialectal) An act of lifting; a lift.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To lift or lift up (something, especially a heavy object).
verb:  To test the weight of (something) by lifting.
verb:  (figurative) To evaluate or test (someone or something).
verb:  (intransitive) To have (substantial) weight; to weigh.
noun:  A piece of pastureland which farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) have become accustomed to.
noun:  A flock or group of farm animals (chiefly cattle or sheep) which have become accustomed to a particular piece of pastureland.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (agriculture) To accustom (a flock or group of farm animals, chiefly cattle or sheep) to a piece of pastureland.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To establish or settle (someone) in an occupation or place of residence.
verb:  To establish or plant (something) firmly in a place; to fix, to root, to settle.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) Of a thing: to establish or settle itself in a place.
verb:  (agriculture) To cause (milk) to be held in a cow's udder until the latter becomes hard and swollen, either by not milking the cow or by stopping up the teats, to make the cow look healthy; also, to cause (a cow) to have an udder in this condition.
verb:  (by extension) To cause (urine) to be held in a person's bladder.
noun:  A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as to form a book or a notebook.
noun:  A part of a serial publication; a fascicle, an issue, a number.
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