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.