HEWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hewer mean? 

• HEWER (noun)
  The noun HEWER has 1 sense:

1. a person who hews

  Familiarity information: HEWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who hews

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hewer" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Derivation:

hew (strike with an axe; cut down, strike)

hew (make or shape as with an axe)

 Context examples 

Hewers of wood and drawers of water, such were they from now onwards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service—I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)