hew
verb (used with object)
to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
hewer
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a word derived from
hew.
Example Sentences
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He went to Manhattan in 1911, started work under Paul Manship, also a hewer of the heroic.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was a coal hewer then, and we were terribly in love..
From Time Magazine Archive
Alumna Charity Mumbi, who would otherwise have joined her 42 brothers and sisters as a hewer of wood, is now a Kenyan information officer.
From Time Magazine Archive
She recited: “‘In Huron, a hewer, Hugh Hughes, Hued yew-trees of unusual hues.
From The Girls of Central High in Camp Or, the Old Professor's Secret by Gertrude W. Morrison
If not precisely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, he was next door to that humble estate, being a digger of wells and cellars.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
