All 4 Uses of
hew
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- A very steep staircase, of unhewn stone, which was called by distinction "the ladder," led to the upper platform, upon which was visible a horizontal wheel of solid oak.†
Chpt 1.6.4unhewn = not cut or shapedstandard 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.
- There have been employed in making the said new cage, ninety-six horizontal beams, and fifty-two upright joists, ten wall plates three toises long; there have been occupied nineteen carpenters to hew, work, and fit all the said wood in the courtyard of the Bastille during twenty days.†
Chpt 2.10.5 *
- Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which seemed to have sprung up a†
Chpt 2.11.4hewn = cut or roughly shaped
- At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated; the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which no feet touched.†
Chpt 2.11.4
Definition:
cut or roughly shape as with an axe