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• hew — (v.) O.E. heawan to chop, hack, gash (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, pp. heawen), earlier geheawan, from P.Gmc. *hawwan (Cf. O.N. hoggva, O.Fris. hawa, O.S. hauwan, M.Du. hauwen, Du. houwen, O.H.G. houwan, Ger. hauen …   Etymology dictionary

• hew — ► VERB (past part. hewn or hewed) 1) chop or cut (wood, coal, etc.) with an axe, pick, or other tool. 2) (usu. be hewn) make or shape by hewing a hard material. ORIGIN Old English …   English terms dictionary

• hew out — verb make or shape as with an axe hew out a path in the rock • Syn: ↑hew • Derivationally related forms: ↑hewer (for: ↑hew) • Hypernyms: ↑carve …   Useful english dictionary

• hew — [c]/hju / (say hyooh) verb (hewed, hewed or hewn, hewing) –verb (t) 1. to strike forcibly with an axe, sword, or the like; chop; hack. 2. to make or shape with cutting blows: to hew a passage. 3. to cut (away, off, out, from, etc.) from a whole… …  

• hew — [[t]hju͟ː[/t]] hews, hewing, hewed, hewn (The past participle can be either hewed or hewn.) 1) VERB If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe. [OLD FASHIONED] [V n] He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber. Syn: chop 2) VERB …   English dictionary

• hew — [hju:] verb (past participle hewn or hewed) 1》 chop or cut (wood, coal, etc.) with an axe, pick, or other tool.     ↘make or shape by cutting or chopping a hard material. 2》 (hew to) N. Amer. conform to. Origin OE hēawan, of Gmc origin …   English new terms dictionary

• hew — v. a. 1. Cut, chop, hack. 2. Smooth (with an axe), fashion, form …   New dictionary of synonyms

• axe — ax / axe [n] large cutting tool adz, chopper, hatchet, tomahawk; concept 499 ax / axe [v1] cut with large blade chop, cut, cut down, fell, hew; concept 176 ax / axe …   New thesaurus

• del-3 (dol-), delǝ- —     del 3 (dol ), delǝ     English meaning: to split, divide     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘spalten, schnitzen, kunstvoll behauen”     Material: O.Ind. dü̆ la yati ‘splits, makes break, crack”, dálati “cracks” (meaning influenced by phálati “ broken …   Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

• in twain — adverb in halves; into two parts; asunder When the masked stranger hew with his axe, the bakers head did split in twain and his body fell like a lump to the ground in turn …   Wiktionary

• chip — I. /tʃɪp / (say chip) noun 1. a small piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking. 2. a very thin slice or piece of food, etc.: chocolate chips. 3. Also, potato chip. a. a deep fried finger of potato. b. a thin slice of potato …