hew

«hew» in Mova's school dictionary: To cut or chop wood or stone with a sharp tool or axe — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (hews, hewing, hewed, hewn or hewed)

meaning for a pupil

1) To cut or chop wood or stone with a sharp tool or axe. tree →

2) (old use) To cut down or chop through with a sword or axe. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales, workers or knights cut down trees or chop through a bridge or gate

examples

• The woodcutter hews the logs for the fire. tree →
• They hewed away at the bridge beams. tree →
• Hew down the bridge quickly! tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
• And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone.
• And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.
• And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.
• Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hew» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.