hewing
Meaning of hewing
verb, gerund or present participle
- chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool.
master carpenters would hew the logs with an axe
he had hewn down the famous elm tree
Old English hēawan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch houwen and German hauen .
Information about hewing
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of hewing is: hewings.
- Languages in which hewing is used:
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Hyphenation of hewing
hew-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- hewing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
hewing synonyms
Meaning cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife:
Meaning cut with rough or heavy blows:
Meaning past of fall:
Meaning remove branches from (a tree):
Meaning end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:
Meaning split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain:
Anagrams of hewing
Words that rhyme with hewing
Wing, wing, adawing, awing, bandsawing, begnawing, blawing, cawing, chainsawing, chawing, clapperclawing, clawing, counterdrawing, dawing, declawing, dragsawing, drawing, finedrawing, flawing, gnawing, guffawing, hacksawing, hawing, heehawing, horsedrawing, indrawing, inlawing, jawing, jigsawing, kawing, lawing, mawing, microdrawing, misdrawing, nonsawing, outawing, outdrawing, outgnawing, outlawing, overawing, overcrawing, overdrawing, parawing, pawawing, pawing, pickmawing, predrawing, pshawing, quartersawing, rawing
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