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Hand-hewn

Definition: Hand-hewn

Hand-hewn

Adjective

1. Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Hand-hewn

Synonym: hewn (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Hand-hewn

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hand-hewn : the art of building your own cabin (reference)

  • Hand-Hewn in Old Vermont (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hand-hewn

"Hand-hewn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hand-hewn" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hand-hewn

Language Translations for "hand-hewn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

and-hewnhay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Hand-hewn

Misspellings

"Hand-hewn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: handhewn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hand-hewn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-h-n-n-w"

-2 letters: wanned.

-3 letters: awned, dawen, dewan, hawed, henna, waned.

-4 letters: anew, awed, dawn, dean, hade, haed, haen, hand, head, hewn, hwan, wade, wand, wane, wean, wend, when.

-5 letters: and, ane, awe, awn, dah, daw, den, dew, edh, end, had, hae, hah, haw, heh, hen, hew, nae, nah, nan, naw, new, wad, wae, wan, wed, wen, wha.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hand-hewn


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6E 64 2D 68 65 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01101000 01100101 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#104 &#101 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006E 0064 002D 0068 0065 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

426780701574718980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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