HEWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hewn mean? 

• HEWN (adjective)
  The adjective HEWN has 1 sense:

1. cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel

  Familiarity information: HEWN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel

Synonyms:

hand-hewn; hewn

Context example:

a path hewn through the underbrush

Similar:

cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)

 Context examples 

He pointed as he spoke to a huge rough-hewn block which lay by the roadside, deep sunken from its own weight in the reddish earth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And there are obstacles in the way: they must be hewn down.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Traddles reasonably supposed that this would settle the business; but I, only feeling that here indeed were a few tall trees to be hewn down, immediately resolved to work my way on to Dora through this thicket, axe in hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The low ceiling, smoke-blackened and dingy, was pierced by several square trap-doors with rough-hewn ladders leading up to them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now the buildings of the outer court were at least five feet high, and it was impossible for me to stride over them without infinite damage to the pile, though the walls were strongly built of hewn stone, and four inches thick.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self- indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite- hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too—not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Black was the mouth of Twynham Castle, though a pair of torches burning at the further end of the gateway cast a red glare over the outer bailey, and sent a dim, ruddy flicker through the rough-hewn arch, rising and falling with fitful brightness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I shall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)