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What (who) is rough hew - definition
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HEW; HEW (disambiguation)
hew
MALE GIVEN NAME
HEW; HEW (disambiguation)
v. (d; intr.) ('to adhere') (AE) to hew to (to hew to the party line)
hew
MALE GIVEN NAME
HEW; HEW (disambiguation)
(hews, hewing, hewed, hewed, or hewn)
1.
If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe. (OLD-FASHIONED)
He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber.
= chop
VERB: V n
2.
If something is hewn from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood. (LITERARY, OLD-FASHIONED)
...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been hewn.
...medieval monasteries hewn out of the rockface.
= cut
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed from/out of n, V-ed
3.
see also rough-hewn
Hew
MALE GIVEN NAME
HEW; HEW (disambiguation)
·noun Hue; color.
II. Hew ·noun Shape; form.
III. Hew ·noun Destruction by cutting down.
IV. Hew ·vt To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument;
- often with down, or off.
VI. Hew ·vt To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to Cut; hence, to form laboriously;
- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
Wikipedia
Hew (disambiguation)
Hew is a given name.
Hew or HEW may also refer to:
- Hewer, a type of miner
- Hewing, the creation of lumber from logs
- Health extension worker, or health extension officer
- Heworth Interchange, in Tyne and Wear, England, station code HEW
- United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Examples of use of rough hew
1. William Shakespeare probably put it best when he wrote: Theres a divinity that shapes our ends, rough–hew them how we will.