HyperDic: hewn

English > 1 sense of the word hewn:
ADJECTIVEallhewn, hand-hewncut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel
hewn > pronunciation
Soundshhyuw'n
Rhymesafternoon ... Witherspoon: 64 rhymes with uwn...
English > hewn: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningcut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel.
Examples
  • "a house built of hewn logs"
  • "rough-hewn stone"
  • "a path hewn through the underbrush"
Synonymhand-hewn
Broadercutfashioned or shaped by cutting

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