Meaning

3 senses

  1. (countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable)Destruction by cutting down or hewing.

  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Hue; colour.

  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Shape; form.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. The lodge is made of rough-hewn logs.

    deDie Hütte ist aus rohen Baumstämmen gemacht. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. This newspaper hews closely to the official propaganda narratives.

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  3. The statue was hewn out of the purest white marble.

    ruСтатуя была высечена из чистейшего белого мрамора. — fjay69

    deDie Statue wurde aus reinstem weißem Marmor geschlagen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. I saw he was of the material from which Nature hews her heroes.

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  5. They were on their way out into the taiga to cut wood and hew timbers under a guard of Cossacks.

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Origin

From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from

From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”).

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Forms

plural: hews
Singularhew
Pluralhews

regular

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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