Definitions for hewn

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hewn hewn

Spelling: [hyoon or, often, yoon]

IPA: /hyun or, often, yun/

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

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in hewn (ehnw).

Definitions for hewn

adjective

1. felled and roughly shaped by hewing:
2. given a rough surface:

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 hewn

1300-50; Middle English hewen, past participle of hew

Examples for hewn

We moored our boat at the foot of a flight of steps, hewn from the solid rock.

As for the maiden, they built her tomb of hewn stone in the place where she was slain.

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down.

The frame is of hewn timber, generally nine by fourteen inches.

The inclosure was protected by a rough fence, hewn out of logs.

The firelight flickered on the hewn logs that supported the thatch overhead.

They did not need to be invented—only hewn and smoothed for the chisel.

The furniture consisted of roughly hewn benches and a table.

He had but one arm, for the other was hewn from him, and the byrnie on his left side was red with blood.

The buildings are of hewn stone, and of the most substantial description.