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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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
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
The day I became hewer he laid his hands upon us, blessed us as bride and bridegroom, and a few weeks afterward I called her my wife.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
Sometimes when a hewer detaches a block of ore with his pick mass of quicksilver, the size of a pigeon’s egg, rolls out, and leaping along the floor, divides into thousands of small drops.
From The Mines and its Wonders by William Henry Giles Kingston
