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verb

Hew v. t. (past hewed; past part. hewn; pres. part. hewing)

To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; often with down, or off.

To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher. "Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn." "Rather polishing old works than hewing out new."

To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack. "Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder."

noun

Hew n. Destruction by cutting down. (Obs.) "Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew."

Hew n.

Hue; color. (Obs.)

Shape; form. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Hew'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... through the war, at first as a private and then as a corporal, writing his experiences into The Color Guard and The Thinking Bayonet; George W. Shaw and Alvin Allen, privates. Thomas D. Howard and James H. Fowler were chaplains in colored regiments. After service as a chaplain of a Hew Hampshire regiment, Edwin M. Wheelock became a lieutenant in a colored regiment, as did Charles B. Webster. Thomas W. Higginson was colonel of a colored regiment, and in another Henry Stone was lieutenant ...

— Unitarianism in America • George Willis Cooke

... in a quicksand bog!" cried one of the steamer hands who had helped hew a path through the swamp. "He'll never get out if you ...

— The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms - Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida • Laura Lee Hope

... generation of men more prattling than an echo and the worst of them able to outchat a hundred of the best picked gossips. And yet their condition would be much better were they only full of words and not so given to scolding that they most obstinately hack and hew one another about a matter of nothing and make such a sputter about terms and words till they have quite lost the sense. And yet they are so happy in the good opinion of themselves that as soon as they are furnished with two or three syllogisms, they dare boldly enter the lists against any ...

— The Praise of Folly • Desiderius Erasmus

... texture: For the substance of it feels, and looks to the naked eye, and may be stretch'd any way, exactly like a very fine piece of Chamois Leather, or wash'd Leather, but it is of somewhat a browner hew, and nothing neer so strong; but examining it with my Microscope, I found it of somewhat another make then any kind of Leather; for whereas both Chamois, and all other kinds of Leather I have yet view'd, consist of an infinite company of filaments, ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... a strange gesture; his face became all inert and white, and his eyes seemed enormous. He tried to speak, but his teeth were chattering. At last he murmured, 'They have shot him!' I did not know what he meant, and felt only a vague terror. I knew afterwards, however, that hew was speaking of Marshal Ney, who fell on the 7th of December, 1815, under the wall enclosing some waste ground beside ...

— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France

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