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Synonyms for hew

Grammar : Verb
Spell : hyoo or, often, yoo
Phonetic Transcription : hyu or, often, yu

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Définition of hew

Origin :
  • Old English heawan "to chop, hack, gash" (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, past participle heawen), earlier geheawan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan (cf. Old Norse hoggva, Old Frisian hawa, Old Saxon hauwan, Middle Dutch hauwen, Dutch houwen, Old High German houwan, German hauen "to cut, strike, hew"), from PIE root *kau- "to hew, strike" (cf. Old Church Slavonic kovo, Lithuanian kauju "to beat, forge;" Latin cudere "to strike, beat;" Middle Irish cuad "beat, fight").
  • Weak past participle hewede appeared 14c., but hasn't displaced hewn. Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to) developed from hew to the line "stick to a course," literally "cut evenly with an axe or saw," first recorded 1891. Related: Hewed; hewing.
  • verb cut
Example sentences :
  • "I intend to hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may," the statement said.
  • Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson
  • We will mark a straight line on the log and hew to that line.
  • Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter
  • I guess I can wait till they've begun to hew out their underpinnin'.
  • Extract from : « Country Neighbors » by Alice Brown
  • The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.
  • Extract from : « Peter and Wendy » by James Matthew Barrie
  • They draw their long scalping-knives, and hew off broad steaks.
  • Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • After this, we had to hew a path for ourselves through the forest.
  • Extract from : « On the Banks of the Amazon » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • Then it took him but a short time to hew his way through the rock.
  • Extract from : « The Lilac Fairy Book » by Andrew Lang
  • The knives of his warriors will hew the living flesh from your bones.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid
  • "Hew down the tree instantly, knaves," he added to the woodmen.
  • Extract from : « Windsor Castle » by William Harrison Ainsworth
  • They two were strong enough to hew and build alone their own Palace of Delight.
  • Extract from : « The Invader » by Margaret L. Woods

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