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Definition of Hand-hewn
1. Adjective. Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel. "A path hewn through the underbrush"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand-hewn
Literary usage of Hand-hewn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California Padres and Their Missions by Charles Francis Saunders, Joseph Smeaton Chase (1915)
"side their fireplaces; hand-hewn ceiling beams, and snug joinery without nails;
scrolls and designs of simple beauty worked into doorposts and lintels; ..."
2. Colonial Architecture for Those about to Build: Being the Best Examples by Herbert Clifton Wise, Henry Ferdinand Beidleman (1913)
"Had the country been settled before its introduction we should have seen in the
primitive buildings the method of framing walls with hand-hewn heavy ..."
3. Georgia and the Carolinas by Norman Renouf, Kathy Renouf (1999)
"The Cabin, room number 406 and costing $465 each night, is a hand-hewn log ...
Finally, the Two Story, another hand-hewn log cabin, has two bedrooms and two ..."
4. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... the floor was of planks hand-hewn with an adze; the chinks between the logs
were stuffed with moss and clay; across one end of the living- room, ..."
5. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"... to dreadful scourging, to have his tongue wrenched out and his hand hewn off,
and to be sent into the wildest parts of Thrace, where he died a few wecke ..."
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