Definition of "hew" []

• To make or shape with or as if with an ax: hew a path through the underbrush. (verb-transitive)
• To cut down with an ax; fell: hew an oak. (verb-transitive)
• To strike or cut; cleave. (verb-transitive)
• To cut something by repeated blows, as of an ax. (verb-intransitive)
• To adhere or conform strictly; hold: hew to the line. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "HY has the same relation to y as HW to w, and represents a sound like that heard in English hew, huge; h in Quenya eht, iht had the same sound."
• "October 21, 2009 at 6:01 am an i will hug yew an squeeze yew and call hew jorge!"
• ""hew" -- "hew," which was answered from a little distance, and looking round, we discovered another roof with an ape seated under it."