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
I was a coal hewer then, and we were terribly in love..
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
In the first place, this her influence must be acknowledged; she must be duly recognized as a teacher no less than as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
David Fraser I never saw; but as a hewer he was said considerably to excel even his brother John.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
