Hewn is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HEWN in dictionary:

VERB:
• HEW, to cut with an ax
• chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool
• make or shape by cutting a hard material such as wood
• conform or adhere to
RESIDUAL:
• (the US Department of) Health, Education, and Welfare
ADJECTIVE:
• Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
• Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
• cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel

Words related to HEWN

hew9 hewed12 hewing13 hews10

Words that contain HEWN

shewn11 unhewn12 unshewn13 foreshewn18 roughhewn19

How to use HEWN in a sentence

• At the four corners of the tiers of apartments, the rock has been hewn so as to form steps for ascending to the top of each.
• Yet this is Ganesh, the kindly Ganesh, who turns not a deaf ear to the prayers of his servants and in whose honour the stone steps were hewn and laid.
• Arminius had caused barricades of hewn trees to be formed here, so as to add to the natural difficulties of the passage.
• There is also an extensive dry-dock, hewn out of the solid rock, capacious enough to receive large vessels.
• The hill is strewn, even to its base, with large hewn blocks and fragments of sculptured stone.
• The houses are all of hewn stone, frequently three and even four stories in height, and built in a most massive and durable style, on account of the frequency of earthquakes.
• Six square pillars of hewn stone made an aisle to our door, and the lofty, roofless walls of the court, 100 by 150 feet, inclosed us.
• The Rhyndacus is still spanned by an ancient bridge of three arches, and both banks are lined with piers of hewn stone.
• The path is rough and narrow, and in places hewn out of the solid rock.
• These are made of heavy logs and have a sliding door of hewn planks.
• Having procured lights, they descended, and at the depth of about sixty feet, entered a cavern, sixteen or eighteen feet square, apparently hewn out of solid rock.
• This cave was a marvel of nature, hewn out of the solid rock by countless tides, its dome lost in the darkness.
• Three miles below, at a narrow place in the river, was the bridge, consisting of three very long tree-trunks reaching parallel from bank to bank, and covered with hewn plank.
• In the centre of this room, which stands a few feet below the Chapel, is, to all appearance, a grave, hewn out of the living rock.
• For many years a single pillar, the only one that ever came to Florence of all those hewn for the church in Pietrasanta, lay forlorn in the Piazza.
• George, itself built of stone which was hewn originally by Minoan masons.
• The enormous spruce, cedar, and fir trees were hewn into logs for several cabins and a barracks, the bark slabs being used as a palisade.
• Their clothing was so far hewn that the chains of their coats of mail could be seen.
• In some places, Keston for instance, the church is founded upon a bed of chalk, and out of the chalk the graves are laboriously hewn.
• The tree, however, no longer exists, for it was hewn in pieces by a Puritan soldier, who is said to have cut off his leg in the process as a penalty for his profanity.
• On the Austro-Wallachian side a road extends over a distance of fourteen to sixteen miles, frequently strengthened with masonry, and at some points hewn out of the solid rock.
• This grotto, hewn out of a rock, is about 1200 paces long, between 50 and 60 feet in height, and of such breadth that two carriages can easily pass each other.
• The vapour baths of Nero, hewn out of the rock, consist of several passages, into which it is impossible to penetrate far on account of the heat.
• There are one or two awkward corners to pass where rough footsteps have been hewn in the rock.
• Too much solemnity and sorrow both were discernible in his worn and rugged features, hewn grandly as if from granite, to admit of a hope like this.
• It has many broad steps of the same hewn stone, at intervals inside.
• He led the way on a beaten path that dropped sharply to a bridge of hewn logs crossing the spent water.
• A straight desk of rough hewn wood stood in the corner by the white-curtained window, and a couch and two large easy-chairs faced a tall narrow fireplace of uneven stone.

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