hew

• HY has the same relation to y as HW to w , and represents a sound like that heard in English hew , huge ; h in Quenya eht , iht had the same sound. —  The Lord of the Rings
• Presently we heard him give a peculiar sound, something like "hew"--"hew," which was answered from a little distance, and looking round, we discovered another roof with an ape seated under it. —  In the Wilds of Africa
• Phoebe Beecham's bad enough at home; but if she thinks she's to have you here to pluck at her leisure, she and her friends W--hew!" —  Phoebe, Junior
• King Harald's son Magnus steered the ship which lay lowest in the river-mouth and nighest out to the lake Now when the men had almost chopped the ice away a certain man ran out on it to the place where they were about to hew, and thereafter fell to chopping as if he were mad and raving. —  The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
• In a moment he was receiving the full attention of every one Every man on the crew deserves praise," began Bob Hooray for the croll hew--I mean the whole crew!" —  Frank Merriwell's Races

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