What does "heft" mean?

Heft: The act or effort of heaving [Obs.] He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Weight; ponderousness. [Colloq.] A man of his age and heft. T. Hughes.
  2. 3.The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. [Colloq. U. S.] J. Pickering.
  3. 4.To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.
  4. 5.To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]

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