Definition of "rock-hewn" [rock-hewn]

• Same as rock-cut.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Its rock-hewn churches date from the 12th century and are not to be missed."
• "When I visited the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela last week, I had in my pocket a letter written by the children who attend an after-school program at First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Connecticut and illustrated by one particularly talented artist there, William Ng."
• "And I, the Aryan master in old Egypt, have myself builded my two burial places -- the one a false and mighty pyramid to which a generation of slaves could attest; the other humble, meagre, secret, rock-hewn in a desert valley by slaves who died immediately their work was done ...."