Associations to the word «Hewn»

Wiktionary

HEWN, adjective. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
HEWN, adjective. Of something that has been cut or mowed down.
HEWN, verb. Past participle of hew

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne