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hewer /ˈhjuːə /noun dated1A person who cuts wood, stone, or other materials.The hewers of wood have long claimed that slaughtering forests is good for the environment....- It took 70,000 burden bearers, 80,000 stone hewers, 3,300 officers, and a forced levy of 30,000 subjects 13 years to finish.
- Cantor described himself as ‘a hewer of timber who with a big axe and with powerful strokes roughly cut the timber to proper form and dimension’.
1.1A miner who cuts coal from a seam.We also know that On the Origin of Species was tackled by a miner, a grocer, and a coal hewer; and that both volumes of Macaulay's History of England were checked out to an engine driver....- There was Bobby's birth certificate (born February 24, 1915, to father Robert, a ‘coal hewer’).
- The only exception was the 1858-1859 time book which contained details on individual hewers ' productivity in terms of tubs mined, forward progress, and mine location.
Phrases hewers of wood and drawers of water Rhymes Amur, brewer, chewer, Dewar, doer, ewer, Kahlua, lassoer, Nuer, pursuer, renewer, screwer, sewer, skewer, skua, spewer, strewer, suer, tattooer, viewer, who're, wooer |