Hewn
[hjʊn]
Definition
(adj.) cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; 'a house built of hewn logs'; 'rough-hewn stone'; 'a path hewn through the underbrush' .
Edited by Fergus--From WordNet
Definition
(-) of Hew
(a.) Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
(a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
Editor: Michel
Examples
- 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.
Editor: Michel