单词 | hewing |
释义 | hewingn. The action of hew v., in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > shaping by or as by cutting hewingc1440 chiselling1835 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > cutting up or to pieces bruting1393 hewingc1440 hashing?1590 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 239/1 Hewynge (or hakkynge), seccio. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 324 For hewyng & sawyng of an Ankere Stoke—viijd. 1573 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 174 Item for hewing, marking, felling..and carriage. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 41 How commeth the Farcin to the creature?.. By enter-firing, and hewing, and lastly by spur-galling. 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 67 He falls to hacking and hewing, as if he would make all fly into shivers. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks II. xii. 30 Blocks of marble in progress of hewing. Compounds hewing-knife, hewing-pick, hewing-stone, etc. ΚΠ 1404 Durham MS. Sacr. Roll j hewyng knyffe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Marteline, a small hewing picke. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 269 [He] brought his hewing stone..from one of the quarries of Moray. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > as lemmashewing hewing adj. that hews. ΚΠ a1566 R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises (1576) sig. Cii Hewing axe ye oke doth waste. < n.1404 as lemmas |
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