hewed
锯切过的,锯切,凿开的,切削过的
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hewed, hewed or hewn, hew·ing.
- : to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- : to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows: to hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble.
- : to sever from a whole by means of cutting blows: to hew branches from the tree.
- : to cut down; fell: to hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm.
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hewed, hewed or hewn, hew·ing.
- : to strike with cutting blows; cut: He hewed more vigorously each time.
- : to uphold, follow closely, or conform: to hew to the tenets of one's political party.
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Examples
Mostly, the night hewed to its mission: attending to burgeoning design houses.
More than a few of them would likely join the opposition for a choice whose views hewed too closely to the man being replaced.
He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.
I sat on a rude wooden bench of newly-hewed wood, lit my pipe again without interference.
The long Frankish swords hewed down the Ismaelians before their short cimeters could strike.
Once at least he was compelled to hang downwards by his toes while he hewed steps beneath him in a perpendicular wall of ice.
Later on, a sheep's carcass (very thin) is thrown down and hewed up with a bill-hook.