HEW OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hew out mean? 

• HEW OUT (verb)
  The verb HEW OUT has 1 sense:

1. make or shape as with an axe

  Familiarity information: HEW OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEW OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or shape as with an axe

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

hew; hew out

Context example:

hew out a path in the rock

Hypernyms (to "hew out" is one way to...):

carve (form by carving)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hew out"):

rough-hew; roughcast (hew roughly, without finishing the surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate; and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get—when our will strains after a path we may not follow—we need neither starve from inanition, nor stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden food it longed to taste—and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)