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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."

adjective

Hewn adj.

Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.

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Etymology of 'Hewn'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hewn" Quotes from Famous Books

... lady," the woman replied; "I have heard tell lately much of the doings of the river pirates. They say that boats are often picked up stove in and broken, and that none know what had become of their occupants, and that bodies, gashed and hewn, are often found ...

— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty

... in this part of the mine was an alcove hewn from solid rock near the junction, in which was a complete smithy. It had forge, anvil, and bellows, and was presided over by a blacksmith named Job Taskar, as ugly a looking fellow, Derrick thought, as he had ever seen. ...

— Derrick Sterling - A Story of the Mines • Kirk Munroe

... opposite, energy, and this even in its lower manifestations, in rocks and stones and trees. By comparing the modes in which the mind is disposed to regard the boughs of a fair and vigorous tree, motionless in the summer air, with the effect produced by one of these same boughs hewn square and used for threshold or lintel, the reader will at once perceive the connection of vitality with repose, and the part they both bear ...

— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin

... Frontenac, of La Salle and D'Iberville, of Brebeuf and Laval. If Venice from amid her lagoons could exclaim, Esto perpetua, Quebec, firm based upon her cliff, can say to the rest of Canada, Attendite ad petram undo excisi estis—'Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.' ...

— The Founder of New France - A Chronicle of Champlain • Charles W. Colby

... beginning of the private houses which were built in consequence of the construction of the Pont Neuf in the reign of Henry IV. The Place Royale was a replica of the Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This archway and the Rue de Harlay are the limit line of the Palais de Justice on the west. Formerly the Prefecture de Police, once the residence of the Presidents of Parlement, was a dependency of the Palace. The Court of Exchequer and Court of Subsidies completed the Supreme Court of Justice, ...

— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac

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