Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A past participle of hew.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared.
- adjective Roughly dressed as with a hammer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Made or crafted by
cutting ,whittling down. - adjective Of something that has been
cut ormowed down. - verb Past participle of
hew
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel
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Examples
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Images came in every day of some ashen soul being carried out of the crush, as if they were just chisel-hewn from the concrete — dusty and a bit broken of course, but still alive with a thumbs up for the camera as they go by.
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Pipe was laid, glass was sealed into the window slots, granite was hewn from a Vermont mountain and shipped all the way to its kitchen counters.
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He has brought me a small bird hewn from a piece of cypress.
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Every evening, at dusk, a statuesque semi-naked Fijian played on a huge drum, hewn from the trunk of an enormous coconut palm, which was the announcement that dinner was served.
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Pipe was laid, glass was sealed into the window slots, granite was hewn from a Vermont mountain and shipped all the way to its kitchen counters.
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Images came in every day of some ashen soul being carried out of the crush, as if they were just chisel-hewn from the concrete — dusty and a bit broken of course, but still alive with a thumbs up for the camera as they go by.
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Pipe was laid, glass was sealed into the window slots, granite was hewn from a Vermont mountain and shipped all the way to its kitchen counters.
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During my recent visit, Ali, a local artisan, demonstrated his trade for me — weaving rugs on a loom built by his grandfather, working in a room hewn from the limestone cliffs by a more distant ancestor.
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During my recent visit, Ali, a local artisan, demonstrated his trade for me — weaving rugs on a loom built by his grandfather, working in a room hewn from the limestone cliffs by a more distant ancestor.
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Concepts, characters, subplots and themes are wildly thrown into the mix like drunken punches and then abandoned, never to be seen again: A whole city 'hewn from the giant trees of a great forest'!
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