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
Often, notwithstanding this, the heat below is very great, and the hewer working away with his heavy pick is bathed in perspiration.
From The Mines and its Wonders by William Henry Giles Kingston
And procuring "lodgings" in a small cottage of but a single apartment, near the village of Niddry Mill, I commenced my labours as a hewer under the shade of the Niddry woods.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
