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Definition: Hand-hewn |
Hand-hewnAdjective1. 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-hewnSynonym: hewn (adj). (additional references) |
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Books | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Hand-hewn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: handhewn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6E 64 2D 68 65 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01101000 01100101 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a n d - h e w n |
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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