hewer
- 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
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
But what am I, regarded as a citizen?—a hewer of wood, and drawer of water; a mere drudge.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)
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 Hardenberg, Friedrich von
