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Meaning of HEWN

Pronunciation:  hyoon

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush"
  2. [adj]  cut down with an ax; "a hewn oak"
 
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 Synonyms: cut, downed, felled, hand-hewn
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Hewn\, a.
1. Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as,
   a house built of hewn logs.
2. Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
 

 

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