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Definition of Hewing
1. hew [v] - See also: hew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hewing
Literary usage of Hewing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"Suitable Sized Timber for hewing. The best sized trees from which ties are made
by hewing are those from 11 to 15 in. in diameter at breast height, ..."
2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"Suitable Sized Timber for hewing. The best sized trees from which ties are made
by hewing are those from 11 to 15 in. in diameter at breast height, ..."
3. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1794)
"... without (hewing ¡— _-_— t 3- '9-] v— --- ', Br. Voucher, pl. îj. cites SC— — Br.
... he cannot vouch the other who has fee, without (hewing ..."
4. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1908)
"hewing Implements. hewing implements include felling-axes, trimming-axes and the
billhook. The two former are heavier than the last, and are used with both ..."
5. The Knights of Columbus in Peace and War by Maurice Francis Egan, John James Bright Kennedy (1920)
"CHAPTER XXVII hewing TO THE LINE "Fk ... and which might easily have become such,
but for the rigid hewing to the line of original policy on the part of the ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"... the window* with the child in his arm«, »hewing bia to the crowd that flocked
in repeated multitudes to shower their blessings apon it and the father. ..."
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