To weigh.
1840. A long row of boxes, which contained the sinews of peace as well as of war, had been viewed and “hefted” by the Commissioners.—Mrs. Kirkland, ‘A New Home,’ p. 223.
1842. Smith told them that the Church had $200,000, in specie, and he opened one box, and they saw that it was silver, and they hefted a number, and Smith told them that they contained specie.—John A. Clark, ‘Gleanings by the Way,’ p. 334.
1851. I remember … the Great Hog up in Dunwich, that hefted nigh twenty score.—S. Judd, ‘Margaret,’ p. 111 (Bartlett).
