Definition of "hand-hewn" [hand-hewn]

• Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "VHT The six-bedroom main house has hand-hewn beams and hardwood flooring throughout."
• "The table was of hand-hewn spruce boards, and the men who played whist had frequent difficulties in drawing home their tricks across the uneven surface."
• "(Settlers Cooper and Greenlaw on what is called the Hill Ranch left two of their dead, 'Little Lillie' and 'Little David,' who rest to-day inside a tiny square of hand-hewn palings)"