Thesaurus / hewed
FEEDBACK- chiseled
- engraved
- sculpted
- sculptured
- carven
- chased
- cut
- etched
- furrowed
- graved
- graven
- grooved
- hewn
- modeled
- scissored
- slashed
- sliced
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How to use hewed in a sentence
He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREEHENRY VAN DYKEI sat on a rude wooden bench of newly-hewed wood, lit my pipe again without interference.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLThe long Frankish swords hewed down the Ismaelians before their short cimeters could strike.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISOnce at least he was compelled to hang downwards by his toes while he hewed steps beneath him in a perpendicular wall of ice.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 147, AUGUST 12, 1914VARIOUSLater on, a sheep's carcass (very thin) is thrown down and hewed up with a bill-hook.
IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V.ERSKINE CHILDERSNinus laughed, and swore I hewed at him like a wood-cutter at a broad-leafed oak in the northern hills.
SARCHEDONG. J. (GEORGE JOHN) WHYTE-MELVILLEThe Spanish horse sallied forth and hacked and hewed broad pathways up the different avenues.
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYThe Spaniards literally cut their way, hewed, hacked, thrust their way into the city.
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYShe had built a new house of hewed logs, with a window in it, and we were allowed to stay in the old cabin.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PARDEE BUTLERPARDEE BUTLERSo, with their hatchets they hewed it down and brought it safely home the next night when all was dark.
A BUDGET OF CHRISTMAS TALES BY CHARLES DICKENS AND OTHERSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HEWED
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.