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Definition of Hew out
1. Verb. Make or shape as with an axe. "Hew out a path in the rock"
Generic synonyms: Carve
Specialized synonyms: Rough-hew, Roughcast
Derivative terms: Hewer
Definition of Hew out
1. Verb. carve out, or cut out a form, or to make something hollow by using heavy cutting tools such as an axe. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hew Out
Literary usage of Hew out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Relation of the College to the Republic: An Address Delivered Before the by Benjamin Francis Thurston (1888)
"... him to have in hand to hew out or carve for himself a respectable career,
whether in a profession or in one of the infinite number of industrial arts, ..."
2. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"This, with the tools and strength at our disposal, seemed impossible, except as
the work of several summers ; but I determined to hew out a cellar for our ..."
3. Sermons by Henry Melvill (1853)
"You have to " hew out" the cisterns—and even this were little : the material is
fragile as well as hard; and what you shape you also shatter. ..."
4. First Book of Forestry by Filibert Roth (1902)
"Knees and spars (masts and other long poles) were usually kept in yards, and many
men made it a business to hew out knees or scour the coast and the river ..."
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