hewing
English
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[edit]hewing
- present participle and gerund of hew
Noun
[edit]hewing (plural hewings)
- The act of one who hews or chops.
- 2010, Stephen Smith, Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets:
- Hadley [the sculptor] could afford to let his hewings be rough where the monarchical extremities were concerned, as these were to be covered by the raiment of state.
- 2021, Peter Cavanagh, “9. Cranes”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 218:
- Hewing to this principle, I walked along the lakeshore at Bosque del Apache as the stragglers of a flock of Sandhill Cranes made their morning departure.
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