Definition of "hewn" []

• A past participle of hew. (verb)

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• "Every evening, at dusk, a statuesque semi-naked Fijian played on a huge drum, hewn from the trunk of an enormous coconut palm, which was the announcement that dinner was served."
• "He has brought me a small bird hewn from a piece of cypress."
• "Images came in every day of some ashen soul being carried out of the crush, as if they were just chisel-hewn from the concrete — dusty and a bit broken of course, but still alive with a thumbs up for the camera as they go by."