Hew

ahd-5
  • intransitive verb. To make or shape with or as if with an ax.
  • intransitive verb. To cut down with an ax; fell.
  • intransitive verb. To strike or cut; cleave.
  • intransitive verb. To cut something by repeated blows, as of an ax.
  • intransitive verb. To adhere or conform strictly; hold.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cut; especially, to cut with an ax, a hatchet, or a sword with a swinging blow; cut with a heavy blow or with repeated blows: as, to hew down a tree.
  • To form or shape by blows with a sharp instrument; cut roughly into form; shape out by cutting: often with out: as, to hew timber; to hew out a sepulcher from a rock.
  • To cut; inflict cutting blows.
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of hue.
  • noun. Destruction by cutting down.
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of hue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Destruction by cutting down.
  • transitive verb. To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
  • transitive verb. To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out.
  • transitive verb. To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
  • noun. Hue; color.
  • noun. Shape; form.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
  • verb. To shape; to form.
  • verb. To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
  • noun. hue; colour
  • noun. shape; form
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. strike with an axe; cut down, strike
  • verb. make or shape as with an axe
  • Word Usage
    "HY has the same relation to y as HW to w, and represents a sound like that heard in English hew, huge; h in Quenya eht, iht had the same sound."
    Form
    hewer  rough-hew  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku  Blue  Cebu  Chengdu  Chou  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    hewn  
    verb-form
    hewed  hewing  hewn  hews