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Hewn
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example Sentences
- Shelves had been hewn from the walls, and there was even a second floor, perhaps a bedroom.
- The result is this beautifully minimal amplifier hewn from aluminum.
- Big enough for the family, subtle yet powerful and almost hewn from an ingot of steel.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
verb (used with object)
1.
to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
2.
to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows: to hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble.
3.
to sever (a part) from a whole by means of cutting blows (usually followed by away, off, out, from, etc.): to hew branches from the tree.
4.
to cut down; fell: to hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm.
verb (used without object)
5.
to strike with cutting blows; cut: He hewed more vigorously each time.
6.
to uphold, follow closely, or conform (usually followed by to): to hew to the tenets of one's political party.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
hew
O.E. heawan "to chop, hack, gash" (class VII strong verb; past tense heow, pp. heawen), earlier geheawan, from P.Gmc. *khawwanan (cf. O.N. hoggva, Du. houwen, Ger. hauen "to cut, strike, hew"), from PIE base *qau- "to strike, beat" (cf. O.C.S. kovo, Lith. kauju "to beat, forge;" L. cudere "to strike,
EXPANDbeat;" M.Ir. cuad "beat, fight"). Weak pp. hewede appeared 14c. Seemingly contradictory sense of "hold fast, stick to" (in phrase hew to) developed from hew to the line "stick to a course," lit. "cut evenly with an axe or saw," first recorded 1891.
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