hew

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"hew" -- "hew," which was answered from a little distance, and looking round, we discovered another roof with an ape seated under it.

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  1. transitive verb To make or shape with or as if with an ax: hew a path through the underbrush.
  2. transitive verb To cut down with an ax; fell: hew an oak.
  3. transitive verb To strike or cut; cleave.
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  • In a sense we Christians, if in a position of responsibility, believe that we are all divinely appointed to the work each of us has to do: instruments of God, who shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may. —  William of Germany
  • 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
  • Rough-hew them how we will. '“ —  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • Rough-hew them as we will.” —  The World As I Have Found It
  • "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
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan; see kau- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hewen (preterit hew, heow, past participle hewen), from Anglo-Saxon heáwan (preterit heów, past participle heáwen) = Old Saxon hāwan= OFries. hāwa, howa = Dutch houwen = Middle Low German houwen, howen, hoggen = Old High German houwan, Middle High German houwen, German hauen = Icelandic höggva = Swedish hugga= Danish hugge, cut, hew, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *haggwan (?), not recorded, = Old Bulgarian Servian kovati, Russian kovatĭ, etc., strike, hammer, forge (a word widely developed in Slav.), = Lithuanian kauti, strike, forge, = Lettish kaut, strike. From the same root are hay and, through F., hoe; also prob. hack, with hatch, hatchet, hash, etc.
  2. from hew, v.
 

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