hew
hew /hj'uː/ (hews hewing hewed hewed or hewn)
1 [VERB] V n
If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe. (OLD-FASHIONED)
He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber.
= chop
2 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed from/out of n, V-ed
If something is hewn from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood. (LITERARY, OLD-FASHIONED)
...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been hewn.
...medieval monasteries hewn out of the rockface.
= cut
3
see also rough-hewn
1 [VERB] V n
If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe. (OLD-FASHIONED)
He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber.
= chop
2 [VERB] usu passive, be V-ed from/out of n, V-ed
If something is hewn from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood. (LITERARY, OLD-FASHIONED)
...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been hewn.
...medieval monasteries hewn out of the rockface.
= cut
3
see also rough-hewn