hewed 的 2 个定义
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.
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.
hewed 近义词
cut
更多hewed例句
- 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.