hewn

«hewn» in Mova's school dictionary: Cut or chopped with an axe, pick or other sharp tool… — 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 form (hew, hews, hewed, hewn or hewed, hewing) — past participle of «hew»; adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Cut or chopped with an axe, pick or other sharp tool, especially wood or stone. tree →

2) (adjective) Shaped roughly by cutting, as in «rough-hewn». tree →

sense in the lessons

A history and story word: «hewn from rock», «a rough-hewn table», «hand-hewn beams». It describes old buildings, castles, caves and furniture. Badger's underground home in The Wind in the Willows has rooms and passages, and old stone homes may be hewn from the rock.

examples

• The steps were hewn out of solid rock. tree →
• The cottage had a rough-hewn wooden table. tree →
• Stone for the cathedral was hewn from a nearby quarry. tree →
• Miners hewed coal deep underground. tree →
• The ancient tomb was hewn into the cliff. tree →
• The beams were hand-hewn by carpenters long ago. tree →
• The churches there are almost entirely built of hewn blocks of stone, each like a piece of rock. tree →

note

Irregular past participle: hew – hewed – hewn (or hewed). Pronounced HYOON. Old-fashioned; today «cut» or «carved». Homophone trap: «hewn» sounds like «Hune»; «hew» sounds like «hue» (a colour) and «Hugh» (a name).

In the corpora

• 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.
• Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;
• He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

Trees and pragmatics

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