transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhyü ]
verb
( hewed ; hewed or hewn ˈhyün ; hew·ing )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hēawan; akin to Old High German houwan to hew, Lithuanian kauti to forge, Latin cudere to beat
Date: before 12th century
transitive verb
1. : to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument
2. : to fell by blows of an ax
hew a tree
3. : to give form or shape to with or as if with heavy cutting blows
hew ed their farms from the wilderness — J. T. Shotwell
intransitive verb
1. : to make cutting blows
2. : conform , adhere
hew to tradition
— often used in the phrase hew to the line
no pressure…on newspapers to hew to the official line — New York Times Magazine
• hew·er noun