All 3 Uses of
hew
in
The Hobbit
- In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood.
p. 158.5hewn = cut
- "Here," said Balin, "in the old days we used always to keep watchmen, and that door behind leads into a rock-hewn chamber that was made here as a guardroom."
p. 223.8
- At length the foremost of these climbed the tumbled rocks and appeared at the top of the falls; and very great was their surprise to see the pool before them and the Gate blocked with a wall of new-hewn stone.
p. 238.9 *
Definition:
cut or roughly shape as with an axe