An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
HEFTING
Verb
hefting
present participle of heft
Source: Wiktionary
HEFT
Heft, n.
Definition: Same as Haft, n. [Obs.] Waller.
Heft, n. Etym: [From Heave: cf. hefe weight. Cf. Haft.]
1. The act or effort of heaving [Obs.] He craks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts. Shak.
2. Weight; ponderousness. [Colloq.] A man of his age and heft. T. Hughes.
3. The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. [Colloq. U. S.] J. Pickering.
Heft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hefted (Heft, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Hefting.]
1. To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.
2. To prove or try the weight of by raising. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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