| 单词 | to hew up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hew up b. esp. with down, to the ground, and the like. Also to hew up, to cut up by the root. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > fell timber fellOE hewc1000 hewc1175 cutc1300 falla1325 stockc1440 to take down1818 droop1819 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9285 Illc an treo..Shall bi þe grund beon hæwenn upp. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 245/160 And hewe a-doun þat treo. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8807 Son þe tre was heun [Gött. heuen, Fairf. hewen] dun. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. iii. 59 A grete tre was hewen doune for to be made a beme. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke iii. f. lxxvij Every tree therfore, which bringeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewen doune, and caste in to the fyre. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 221 [He] caused the woodes to be hewen downe. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xv. 352 Like a common woodcutter, he hewed down a bough and threw it over his shoulder. < as lemmas |
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