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Eft vs Heft - What's the difference?

eft | heft |

In obsolete terms the difference between eft and heft

is that eft is again; afterwards while heft is past participle of to heave.

As an adverb eft

is again; afterwards.

As an initialism EFT

is emotional Freedom Technique.

As a verb heft is

to lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.

eft

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) efeta, of unknown origin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A newt, especially the European ).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
  • *:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
    • Usage notes
    The term ).
    Derived terms
    * red eft

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) eft, from (etyl) . Compare after, aft.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) Again; afterwards
  • *14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), '' in ''(The Canterbury Tales) ,
  • *:Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.
  • *1384 , (John Wycliffe), , ii, 1,
  • *:And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.
  • *:
  • *:Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente
  • *1557 , , ,
  • *:And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    heft

    English

    Alternative forms

    * haft

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Weight.
  • * T. Hughes
    • a man of his age and heft
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
  • Heaviness, the feel of weight.
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  • (Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
  • An animal that has become hefted thus.
  • (West of Ireland) Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
  • The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • He cracks his gorge, his sides, / With violent hefts .
  • (US, dated, colloquial) The greater part or bulk of anything.
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * hefty

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
    • He hefted the sack of concrete into the truck.
  • To test the weight of something by lifting it.
  • (Northern England and Scotland) To become accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.
  • (obsolete) past participle of to heave.

    • Synonyms

    * hoist