Hew
[hjuː] or [hju]
Definition
(verb.) strike with an axe; cut down, strike; 'hew an oak'.
(verb.) make or shape as with an axe; 'hew out a path in the rock'.
Editor: Melinda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
(v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
(v. t.) To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
(n.) Destruction by cutting down.
(n.) Hue; color.
(n.) Shape; form.
Editor: Vito
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Cut, chop, hack.[2]. Smooth (with an axe), fashion, form.
Editor: Tracy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cut, hack, chop, fall
ANT:Mould, model, form, carve, engrave, sculpture, levigate, turn
Typist: Montague
Definition
v.t. to cut with any sharp instrument: to cut in pieces: to shape.—v.i. to deal blows with a cutting instrument:—pa.p. hewed or hewn.—n. (Spens.) hacking.—n. Hew′er one who hews.
Edited by Andrea
Examples
- Ruin will come, lay her axe to my fortune's roots, and hew them down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ten thousand warriors could not hew a way to liberty from out this awful place. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The beam was straight, long, and heavy, and that and the mould generally hewed from a tree. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We arrived at a tumble-down old rookery called the Palazzo Simonetti--a massive hewn-stone affair occupied by a family of ragged Italians. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was modelled on that of Athens,—a large semicircle hewn out of the volcanic rock, with seats of the red limestone so frequent in Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And there are obstacles in the way: they must be hewn down. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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