All 3 Uses of
hew
in
Antigone
- Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber.†
*
- She shall be taken to some desert place By man untrod, and in a rock-hewn cave, With food no more than to avoid the taint That homicide might bring on all the State, Buried alive.†
- O grave, O bridal bower, O prison house Hewn from the rock, my everlasting home, Whither I go to join the mighty host Of kinsfolk, Persephassa's guests long dead, The last of all, of all more miserable, I pass, my destined span of years cut short.†
Definition:
-
(hew as in: hew with an axe) cut or roughly shape as with an axe