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# hew

«hew» in Mova's school dictionary: **To cut or chop wood or stone with a sharp tool or axe** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hews, hewing, hewed, hewn or hewed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cut or chop wood or stone with a sharp tool or axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hew/#m1)

2) (old use) To cut down or chop through with a sword or axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hew/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, workers or knights cut down trees or chop through a bridge or gate

### examples

- The woodcutter hews the logs for the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hew/#x1)
- They hewed away at the bridge beams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hew/#x2)
- Hew down the bridge quickly! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hew/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.419/)
- [And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.187/)
- [And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.224/)
- [And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.239/)
- [Should the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.230/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.