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hew
transitive verb
1
: to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument
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: to fell by blows of an ax <hew a tree>
3
: to give form or shape to with or as if with heavy cutting blows <hewed their farms from the wilderness
— J. T. Shotwell>
intransitive verb
1
: to make cutting blows
2
: conform, adhere <hew to tradition> —often used in the phrase hew to the line<no pressure…on newspapers to hew to the official line
— New York Times Magazine>
— hew·er noun
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