Hew Definition

hyo͝o
hewed, hewing, hewn, hews
verb
hewed, hewing, hewn, hews
To make cutting or chopping blows with an ax, knife, etc.
Webster's New World
To make or shape by or as by cutting or chopping with an ax, etc.
Webster's New World
To chop or cut with an ax, knife, etc.; hack; gash.
Webster's New World
To chop (a tree) with an ax so as to cause it to fall.
Webster's New World
To strike or cut; cleave.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
abbreviation
(Department of) Health, Education, and Welfare (1953-79)
Webster's New World
noun
Destruction by cutting down.
Wiktionary
pronoun

A patronymic surname​.

Wiktionary

Origin of Hew

  • From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂u- (“to strike, hew, forge”). Cognate with Scots hew, hewe, West Frisian houwe, Dutch houwen, German hauen, Swedish hugga, Icelandic höggva; and with Latin cūdō (“strike, beat, pound, forge”), Lithuanian káuti (“to beat, forge”), Albanian hu (“a club, pole”). See also hoe.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English hewen from Old English hēawan kau- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Hugh.

    From Wiktionary

Hew Sentence Examples

  • Haue; the root is seen in "hew," to cut, cleave; the word must be distinguished from "hoe," promontory, tongue of land, seen in place names, e.g.

  • Within ane quhyle he changit mony hew; And nevertheless, not ane ane uther knew.

  • After receiving a somewhat imperfect education from a private tutor, he was in 1712 indentured to a writer to the signet in Edinburgh, but an accidental introduction to Sir Hew Dalrymple, then president of the court of session, determined him to aspire to the position of advocate.

  • Within ane quhyle he changit mony hew; And nevertheless, not ane ane Uther knew.

  • On the way they slay their half-brother Erp, whom they suspect of lukewarmness in the cause; arrived in the hall of Ermanaric they make a great slaughter of the Goths, and hew off the hands and feet of Ermanaric, but they themselves are slain with stones.

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