shaped or cut with an ax, knife, chisel, etc.: hewn stone
Origin of hewn
from past participle of hew
adjective
- The definition of hewn is something chiseled or shaped with a tool.
An example of something hewn is a stone marker chiseled from a large rock.
- Hewn is defined as to have made, shaped or cut.
- Having made a pottery bowl is an example of hewn.
- Having cut down a tree is an example of hewn.
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hewn
verb
A past participle of hew
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Sentence Examples
- She entered a narrow, well-lit hall and followed it through smoothly hewn walls.
- The most valuable part of his property still consisted of flocks and herds, or the products of the labours of his serfs, a large proportion of whom were bee-keepers, hunters and fishers employed in and around the interminable virgin-forests of the rough-hewn young monarchy.
- Long by half a mile broad, and the salt is hewn out in large blocks with picks and wedges.
- It has steps hewn in it, and has a cleft.
- In the slope above the town was hewn a theatre equalling that of Athens in size.
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