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== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”). Cognate to West Frisian houwe (“to hew”), Cimbrian hauan (“to dig”), Dutch houwen (“to hew”), German hauen (“to hew”), Luxembourgish haen (“to chop”), Danish hugge (“to hew”), Faroese høgga (“to hew”), Icelandic höggva (“to hew”), Norwegian Bokmål hogge, hugge (“to hew”), Norwegian Nynorsk hogga (“to hew”), Swedish hugga (“to hew”). Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /hjuː/ Rhymes: -uː Homophones: hue, Hiw, Hugh ==== Verb ==== hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewn or hewed or (archaic) hewen) (ambitransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. (transitive) To shape; to form. (transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography,[5] Jennings & Graham, page 428 Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews) (obsolete) Destruction by cutting down or hewing. === Etymology 2 === See hue. ==== Noun ==== hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews) (obsolete) Hue; colour. (obsolete) Shape; form. === Anagrams === weh == Zaghawa == === Noun === hew baboon === References === Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad