To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
2008 July 25, "The Media Hearts Obama?", On The Media, National Public Radio
To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
Material used as fill between walls of greater structural integrity, especially in masonry.
The masons used rubble from their trimming of the face rocks as some of the hearting for the wall.