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▪ I. hewer|ˈhjuːə(r)|
[f. hew v. + -er1.]
One who hews. a. One who cuts wood or stone; spec. one who shapes and dresses stone for building. Cf. hardhewer. b. In Lumbering, ‘One who uses a heavy broad-ax in squaring timber’ (Cent. Dict.).
1382Wyclif 1 Esdras iii. 7 Thei ȝeue money to heweris of stonus, and to leieris. c1440Promp. Parv. 238/2 Hewar, secator. 1530Palsgr. 231/1 Hewer of stones, taillevr de pierres. 1671H. M. tr. Colloq. Erasmus 298 The hewers down of timber. 1789Burns To Capt. Riddel, Our friends the Reviewers, those chippers and hewers. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Hewers, those who follow that branch of the masonry trade which consists in the cutting or dressing of the stone previous to its being placed on the walls.
c. In a colliery, the man who cuts the coal from the seam.
1708J. C. Compl. Collier (1845) 35 To agree with your Hewers of Coals or Miners, by the Score of Corves. 1867in W. W. Smyth Coal & Coal-mining 232 The hewer that keeps his safety lamp in the best order. 1885Law Times LXXIX. 176/1 The plaintiff..a coal hewer or miner.
d. hewers of wood and drawers of water: labourers of the lowest kind; drudges. (From Joshua ix. 21.)
[c1000ælfric Deut. xxix. 11 Buton wuduheawerum and þam þe wæter beraþ. 1382Wyclif Deut. xxix. 11 Out taak the hewers of trees, and hem that beren watris.] 1535Coverdale Josh. ix. 21 Let them lyue, that they maye be hewers of wodd and bearers of water for the whole congregacion. 1755Man No. 25. 2 Even hewers of wood and drawers of water are men in a lower degree. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxvi, Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is rheumatic.
▪ II. hewer
variant of huer; obs. f. ewer2.
1461in P. Lett. No. 429 II. 75, ij. basanes and ij. hewers. |