hewn
felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
given a rough surface: hewn stone.
Origin of hewn
1Other words from hewn
- un·hewn, adjective
- well-hewn, adjective
Words Nearby hewn
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How to use hewn in a sentence
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down.
Librizzi has always struck me as an admirable man, rough-hewn as a New York cabbie.
Red, Black, and Silver’ Just May Be Jackson Pollock’s Last Painting | Anthony Haden-Guest | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI…saw…18th-century hand-hewn and hand-planed joists and beams with extremely wide floorboards right above them….
Is This the Tavern Where Washington Drank After Beating the British? | William Bryk | November 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe man is uncivil and impolitic, rough-hewn enough for leather fringe and dung-crusted boots.
Back then such a thing was novel; today you could fill a manly, hand-hewn shelf with dad books.
The same may be said of the sarcophagi in the principal temple, which is hewn out of a block of fine white marble.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferOn the opposite bank of the river, a small hill rises, upon which rests the figure of a large and rather plump ox hewn in stone.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferThe principal temple, Kylas, is the most wonderful of all those which are hewn out of the rock.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferHe then advanced over the log slowly and cautiously, for its upper surface, hewn level and smooth, was but four inches wide.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. ThompsonThe two houses, which they had noticed as they passed in April, were constructed of hewn boards gray with age.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. Thompson
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