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hew as in:  hew with an axe

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    In a fury he hewed at them with his sword,  (source)
    hewed = cut
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    It was a tiny cube-shaped room with a large rough-hewn stone standing against the north wall.†  (source)
    hewn = cut or roughly shaped
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    Everything was rough-hewn and seemingly careless, without signs of aesthetic design.†  (source)
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    She and Tate hired the fix-it man again, and he built a lab and studio—of raw wood, hand-hewn posts, and tin roof—for her behind the shack.†  (source)
    hewn = cut or roughly shaped
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    Hew!†  (source)
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    He had gone five years before her, to prepare everything, to build a little house with a woodstove and furniture hewed from tree branches.†  (source)
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    Glen Papineau traced a broad circle in the south field, entering the light of the yard like an actor stepping onto a stage: enormous, thick-necked, head and shoulders powdered and tear-streaked, one hand clasped over his face as if to rip away a mask and the other hewing the air before him.†  (source)
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    True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.†  (source)
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    But the little Mayr hews had to follow right behind Brother Dampeer.†  (source)
    hews = cuts or roughly shapes
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    Straight to their several cares the Trojans move, Some search the plains, some fell the sounding grove: Nor less the Greeks, descending on the shore, Hew'd the green forests, and the bodies bore.†  (source)
    Hew'd = cut or roughly shaped
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    Looking round once more, with his hand already in his pocket, he noticed against the outer wall, between the entrance and the sink, a big unhewn stone, weighing perhaps sixty pounds.†  (source)
    unhewn = not cut or shaped
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhewn means not and reverses the meaning of hewn. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?†  (source)
    heweth = cuts or roughly shapes
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She heweth" in older English, today we say "She hews."
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    'No,' said Nicholas, 'and for that reason poverty should engender an honest pride, that it may not lead and tempt us to unworthy actions, and that we may preserve the self-respect which a hewer of wood and drawer of water may maintain, and does better in maintaining than a monarch in preserving his.†  (source)
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