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Definition of Hewed
1. hew [v] - See also: hew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hewed
Literary usage of Hewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Poetry from the 12th to the Close of the 16th Century by Charles Dudley Warner, Thomas Warton, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... near Brunanburh. hewed the [war] lindens, (They) clove the board-wall, with
relics of ... 5 They hewed the noble banners, T. And hewed their banners, ..."
2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"SAWED VERSUS hewed TIES There is a wide range of opinion among those experienced
in the use of both sawed and hewed ties as to the relative advantages and ..."
3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"SAWED VERSUS hewed TIES There is a wide range of opinion among those experienced
in the use of both sawed and hewed ties as to the relative advantages and ..."
4. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... hewed the [war] lindens, ... They hewed the noble banners, T. And hewed their
banners, I. In this in- ..."
5. Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855 by John Blair Linn (1877)
"wainer, hewed log house; McCutchen, Hugh, schoolmaster; Mc- Grady, ... Andrew,
junior, farmer, round log house ; Pontius, Henry, farmer, hewed log house and ..."
6. The Novelist's Magazine (1785)
"... (hewed his brother a fountain not far off. « Ah, brother! ... to the decrees
of Heaven; which (hewed how ..."
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