Hewing [verb]
Definition of Hewing:
cut
Synonyms of Hewing:
● Cleave
● Fashion
● Prune
● Chip
● Stroke
● Chop
● Strike
● Shape
● Fell
● Hack
● Carve
● Hold
● Axe
Opposite/Antonyms of Hewing:
-
Sentence/Example of Hewing:
One of the two whom I saw, held a heavy axe over his head, and had taken the bent attitude of a workman hewing wood.
These thousands of slaves who are hewing away the mountains are ludicrous and ridiculous in their brutality and absurdity.
The very day after a king ascended the throne he used to begin hewing out the sepulchre where he should lie.
Here they set to work in earnest; hewing down the trees and clearing the ground for the foundations of the temples.
Abraham helped his father in clearing the land and hewing the trees.
He busied himself with hewing these ends of planks into big wedges and he drove them into cracks between the planks near the keel.
It is all an inspiration; while hewing out chunks of ice and shovelling them away is the acute pleasure of movement, exercise.
The "dogs" were hewing with axes about some newly made carts, or rushing around on errands as slaves are made to do.
Then they went back to their hewing in the bluff, and the Frulein Muller went on with her knitting.
We can reach the Citadel Square from our side without difficulty, for it is a simple matter of hewing our way thither.