Definitions for HEW

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HEW hew

Spelling: [hyoo or, often, yoo]

IPA: /hyu or, often, yu/

Hew is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in HEW (ehw).

Definitions for HEW

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 HEW

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

Examples for HEW

Then it took him but a short time to hew his way through the rock.

"I intend to hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may," the statement said.

They draw their long scalping-knives, and hew off broad steaks.

After Jobs left, Scully says, the company tried to hew to his design philosophy.

After this, we had to hew a path for ourselves through the forest.

Behind all the finger-wagging is the idea that movies about history need to hew to facts.

I guess I can wait till they've begun to hew out their underpinnin'.

The astounded brothers were dragged away to hack and hew and carry.

That may make them more likely to, collectively, hew to a more moderate path when giving odds on the election.

We will mark a straight line on the log and hew to that line.