1. Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an axe or chisel
   "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"; "a house built of hewn logs";
   - hand-hewn

1. Make or shape as with an axe
   "hew out a path in the rock";
   - hew out
    
2. Strike with an axe; cut down, strike
   "hew an oak"

See also: cut

Type of: carve, strike

Encyclopedia: Hewn