All 9 Uses of
hew
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- With what strength he had he hewed at the crawling arm near the wrist, and the hand broke off; but at the same moment the sword splintered up to the hilt.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- It dived into dells, and hugged steep banks; and where it passed over flatter and more open ground on either side of it there were lines of large boulders and hewn stones that screened the travellers almost like a hedge.†
Chpt 1.11
- Through the throat of one huge leader Aragorn passed his sword with a thrust; with a great sweep Boromir hewed the head off another.†
Chpt 2.4
- Great shadows sprang up and fled, and for a second they saw a vast roof far above their heads upheld by many mighty pillars hewn of stone.†
Chpt 2.4
- The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright.†
Chpt 2.4
- Boromir leaped forward and hewed at the arm with all his might; but his sword rang, glanced aside, and fell from his shaken hand.†
Chpt 2.5
- Gimli hewed the legs from under another that had sprung up on Balin's tomb.†
Chpt 2.5
- Then he saw that they were indeed shaped and fashioned: the craft and power of old had wrought upon them, and still they preserved through the suns and rains of forgotten years the mighty likenesses in which they had been hewn.†
Chpt 2.9
- In steep places stairs of stone had been hewn, but now they were cracked and worn, and split by the roots of trees.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(hew as in: hew with an axe) cut or roughly shape as with an axe