Hewn meaning

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Shaped or cut with an ax, knife, chisel, etc.

Hewn stone.

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Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
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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.

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Of something that has been cut or mowed down.
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Past participle of hew.
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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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Sentence Examples

  • She entered a narrow, well-lit hall and followed it through smoothly hewn walls.

  • 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.

  • Many of the old chambers, some of which are of enormous size, are embellished with portals, candelabra, statues, &c., all hewn in rock-salt.

  • (From Dennis.) hewn from the rock.

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