hew
verb (used with object)
to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
unhewed
-
a word derived from
hew.
Example Sentences
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"We did hang an awning to the trees to shield us from the sun, our walls were rails of wood, our seats unhewed trees, our pulpit a bar of wood—this was our 'church.'"
From Five Sermons by H. B. Whipple
The 'meeting-house,' of large unhewed logs, was a story and a half in hight, and about large enough to seat comfortably a congregation of two hundred persons.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various
The logs are unhewed outside because I like the rough finish, but inside the walls are perfectly square and smooth.
From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Places of worship appeared in the shape of parallelograms, unhewed stones piled upon the ground, with a semicircular niche in the direction of Meccah.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
For this reason Vitruvius proposes another sort of Masonry, which may be call'd the Compound Masonry, for it is all the former together, of Stones hewed and unhewed, and fastned together with Cramp-Irons.
From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Claude Perrault
