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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hew \Hew\, n.
Destruction by cutting down [Obs.]
Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hew \Hew\, n.
1. Hue; color. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
2. Shape; form [Obs.] --Spenser.
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 1.6 [wn]:
hew
v 1: make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a pth in the rock"
[syn: {hew out}]
2: strike with an axe; cut down strike; "hew and oak"
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