Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hewn"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hewn \Hewn\, a.
1. Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as,
a house built of hewn logs.
2. Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hew \Hew\, v. t. [imp. {Hewed}; p. p. {Hewed} or {Hewn}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Hewing}.] [AS. he['a]wan; akin to D. houwen, OHG.
houwan, G. hauen, Icel. h["o]ggva, Sw. hugga, Dan. hugge,
Lith. kova battle, Russ. kovate to hammer, forge. Cf. {Hay}
cut grass, {Hoe}.]
1. To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; --
often with down, or off. --Shak.
2. 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. --Is. li. 1.
Rather polishing old works than hewing out new.
--Pope.
3. To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hewn
adj 1: cut down with an ax; "a hewn oak"
2: 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"
[syn: {hand-hewn}]
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