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Definition:1. to shape wood with an axe or adze2. to shape stone with a chisel
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if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank,
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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“There’s a divinity doth hedge a king, Rough hew him how we may;”
Samuel Butler. Erewhon
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There was no one to hew down (as he had always imagined battles to himself), nor could he help to fire the bridge because he had not brought any burning straw with him like the other soldiers.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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