1. Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an axe or chisel
   "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"
   - hand-hewn

1. Make or shape as with an axe
   "hew out a path in the rock"
   - hew out 
2. Strike with an axe; cut down, strike
   "hew an oak"

See also: cut, hewer

Type of: carve, strike

Encyclopedia: Hew

• unpretentiously
• unpretentiousness
• unpreventable
• unpriestly
• unprincipled
• unprintable
• open-end wrench
• open-ended
• open-eyed
• open-face sandwich
• open-faced
• open-heart surgery
• open-hearth
• open-hearth furnace
• open-hearth process
• open-minded
• open-mindedly
• open-mindedness
• open-plan
• open-source
• openbill
• opencast
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• opencut
• opened