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hewn (root: hew)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hewn has 1 sense
- hewn(s = adj.all) hand-hewn - cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"
CIDE DICTIONARY
hewn, a.
- Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs. [1913 Webster]
- Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
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