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hewn
/hjun/
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What does hewn mean?
adjective
- Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
- Having been cut or mown down.
verb
- past participle of hew
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IPA pronunciation
/hjun/
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This church was hewn out of ancient and silent stone, bearded with old fungoids and stained with the nests of birds.
The metal was still too precious to be used for cannon balls, which were hewn of stone from quarries on Maidstone Heath.
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In a meadow in the parish of Standon, near Ware, there stands a rough hewn stone, now protected by an iron rail.
So this was Lindstrom's quarry, from which he had hewn out ice and snow all these months for cooking, drinking, and washing.
The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn.