Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To hew in pieces.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
cut orhack heavily;cut to pieces,chop up .
Etymologies
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From Middle English tohewen, from Old English tōhēawan ("to hew in pieces, chop up"), from Proto-Germanic *tō-hawwánan (“to cut to pieces”), equivalent to to- + hew. Cognate with Old Frisian tehawa, Middle Low German tohouwen, Dutch tehouwen, German zerhauen ("to chop up, hack").
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