Repairing the damage will take time, especially on the open mountains and upland commons where flocks are often
hefted to their territories.
But he would be the last of the
hefted men of Celynnen, it seemed.
Miss Hughes, a teacher of environmental science, has recently bought ten
hefted sheep which graze at Talybont-on-Usk.
As it is, they acquire a quirky prestige by virtue of their elevation,
hefted up on stacks of thick spools or sidled onto flatbeds perched on wooden sawhorses, slouched in single file as if walking the plank.
Trump and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, along with Deputy Mayor John Dyson, representatives of the Galbreath Company and the General Electric Pension Trust as they
hefted their own jackhammers and officially broke ground at One Central Park West.
I read that the ancestral urge to be
hefted may be one of the most profound but least understood characteristic of modern life.
NORTH Yorkshire hill farmer Stuart Wood, of Wethercote Farm, Bilsdale, Helmsley, won the coveted Moorland Association Rose Bowl Trophy for the best pen of ewes
hefted to the North York Moors at the Cundalls' sheep sale.
Such memory is used even in
hefted flocks for emergency feeding in adverse weather."
The farmers grazed
hefted flocks on the land, which had an instinctive knowledge of their territory bred into them.
"We have received a number of calls from farmers worried that if they move sheep from
hefted flocks to lowland tack they will not be able to move them back, " said Peter Davies, the union's Carmarthenshire area officer.
Traditionally, each commoner's flock of sheep is "
hefted" to graze a particular area of the common with this instinct passed down from each generation of sheep.
