Definitions for hews

hews hew

Spelling: [hyoo or, often, yoo]
IPA: /hyu or, often, yu/

Hews is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in hews (ehsw).

Definitions for hews

verb (used with object)

  1. to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
  2. to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows:
  3. to sever (a part) from a whole by means of cutting blows (usually followed by away, off, out, from, etc.):
  4. to cut down; fell:

verb (used without object)

  1. to strike with cutting blows; cut:
  2. to uphold, follow closely, or conform (usually followed by to):

Origin of hews

before 900; Middle English hewen, Old English hēawan; cognate with German hauen, Old Norse hǫggva; akin to haggle

Examples for hews

Who is it hews his foe to mammocks; writes “Acquittal” on his tomb—and dies?

She swims to a stake, to which she clings, and John hews her in three, QQ.

This they did, and presently came to the hero with the hews that the man lived and desired to speak with his deliverer.

The ordinary collier is paid by piecework—so much per ton for all the coal he hews.

He that depends upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, and hews down oaks with rushes.

It was at least something to have discovered that Will hews was an Elizabethan name.

Indeed the name hews seemed to have been closely connected with music and the stage.

Some he hews out at the base and flings behind him on the field.

The ambitious carpenter first hews out a distorted caricature of a man, which he passes over to the painters to be embellished.

Every branch he hews from a tree on our soil is a limb lopped from Hoithlees body.

Word Value for hews
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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