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
The spotless linen was a delight to the boarders, but to Jimmy, deposed to the rank of hewer of wood and drawer of water, it was the badge of the usurper.
From Travelers Five Along Life's Highway by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Nothing is degrading that is virtuous and honest; and where honesty and virtue are, there alone is true nobility, though their owner be a hewer of wood.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
