hewn

[ hyoon or, often, yoon ]
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adjective
  1. felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.

  2. given a rough surface: hewn stone.

Origin of hewn

1
1300–50; Middle English hewen, past participle of hew

Other words from hewn

  • un·hewn, adjective
  • well-hewn, adjective

Words Nearby hewn

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How to use hewn in a sentence

  • The same may be said of the sarcophagi in the principal temple, which is hewn out of a block of fine white marble.

  • On the opposite bank of the river, a small hill rises, upon which rests the figure of a large and rather plump ox hewn in stone.

  • The principal temple, Kylas, is the most wonderful of all those which are hewn out of the rock.

  • He then advanced over the log slowly and cautiously, for its upper surface, hewn level and smooth, was but four inches wide.

  • The two houses, which they had noticed as they passed in April, were constructed of hewn boards gray with age.