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Definitions: Hewn |
HewnAdjective1. Cut down with an ax; "a hewn oak". 2. 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. |
Date "hewn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Of timber reduced to specified dimensions, with or without wane, by axe or adze. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: HewnSynonym: hand-hewn (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonpreparation | Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hewn |
| English words defined with "hewn": ashlar, Ashler ♦ Cut stone ♦ Gurt ♦ hand-hewn ♦ Lion of Lucerne ♦ Regrate ♦ stone ♦ Upher. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hewn": coal face ♦ die-square ♦ polled stone ♦ railway sleeper, round edged ♦ square-cut ♦ unedged ♦ waney-edged. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hewn": Upher. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mountain family on porch of their home made of hand hewn logs up South Fork of Kentucky River, Breathitt County, Kentucky.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He has a noble palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty feet high. |
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| "Hewn" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Hewn" is used about 55 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 80% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hewn": hewn stone. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "hewn": dwarf-hewn, fine-hewn, firm-hewn, hand-hewn, hard-hewn, rock-hewn, rougher-hewn, rough-hewn, time-hewn. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ruff hewn | 16 |
hewn | 10 |
cedar hand hewn log | 7 |
hand hewn beam | 7 |
cedar hand hewn siding | 6 |
beam hewn | 4 |
cabin hewn log | 3 |
hand hewn log | 3 |
american hewn | 3 |
hand hewn timber | 2 |
clothing hewn ruff | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hewn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i prerë (amputated, categorical, crisp, curdy, curt, cut, felled, firm, flat, flat-footed, indented, Nick, outright, peremptory, positive, pronounced, shorn, short, straight out, toreutic, truncated), i latuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجذوع, مبتور (felled, truncate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отсечен (abrupt, curt, jerky, sharp, short, stubbed), одялан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 成 (hew, Hewed, Hewing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slinget. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vierkant gezaagd (square hewn, square-sawn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hakkauttaa (have . . hewn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | débillardé, coupé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gebeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πελεκητός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מסותת (cut, faced), חצוב (carved), כרות (cut), '"וע (cut off, cutting, felled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | levágott (cut, cut off, cut-off, stumpy), faragott (carved, graven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | asciato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 切り石 (hewn stone, quarried stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きりいし (hewn stone, quarried stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scoltit (burst, chopped, cleft, cloven, fissured, gutted, parted, slit, split, sprung), lhieggit (downed, fallen, thrown, tumbled), giarrit (carved, censored, chopped, clipped, condensed, curtailed, disconnected, intersected, lanced, lopped, nicked, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated), cummit (artificial, celebrated, fashioned, made, planned, stopped, sustained). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewnhay desbastado. (various references) participiu trecut de la hew. (various references) тесаный, высеченный (graven). (various references) sečen, klesan. (various references) pp de hew, desbastada. (various references) tillyxad, bilad. (various references) กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ hew, ซึ่งถูกโค่น, ซึ่งถูกฟัน. (various references) kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar). (various references) тесаний, висічений (glyphic). (various references) vụng về (butter-fingered, clumpish, clumsily, clumsy, gauche, heavy-handed, loutish, maladroit, rough-hewn, stern foremost). (various references) nadd (wrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H sofia wkodomhsen eauth oikon kai uphreisen stulouV epta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum excidit columnas septem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Wisdam bilde out to hym an hous; heew out seuen pileris, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang kaalam nagtukod sa iyang balay; Iyang gihinloan ang iyang pito ka mga haligi: |
| Croatian | Mudrost je sazidala sebi kuæu, i otesala sedam stupova. |
| Danish | Visdommen bygged sig Hus, rejste sig støtter syv, |
| Dutch | De opperste Wijsheid heeft Haar huis gebouwd; Zij heeft Haar zeven pilaren gehouwen. |
| Finnish | Viisaus on talonsa rakentanut, veistänyt seitsemän pylvästänsä. |
| French | La sagesse a bâti sa maison, Elle a taillé ses sept colonnes. |
| German | Die Weisheit baute ihr Haus und hieb sieben Säulen, |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Bon konprann bati kay li, li kanpe l' avèk sèt gwo poto. |
| Hungarian | Bölcseség megépítette az õ házát, annak hét oszlopát kivágván. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hikmat telah mendirikan rumah, dan menegakkan ketujuh tiangnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa Hikmat itu telah membangunkan rumahnya, dan dihiasinya dengan tujuh batang tiang yang terpahat. |
| Italian | La Sapienza si è costruita la casa, ha intagliato le sue sette colonne. |
| Maori | ¶ Kua oti i te whakaaro nui tetahi whare mona te hanga, e whitu nga pou kua oti te tarai e ia: |
| Norwegian | Visdommen har bygget sitt hus, hun har hugget til sine syv stolper. |
| Portuguese | A sabedoria já edificou a sua casa, já lavrou as suas sete colunas; |
| Rumanian | Knyelepciunea wi -a zidit casa, wi -a tqiat cei wapte stklpi. |
| Russian | рТЕНХ"ТПУФШ ПУФТПЙМБ УЕ'Е "ПН, ЧЩФЕУБМБ УЕНШ УФПМ'ПЧ ЕЗП, |
| Spanish | La sabiduría edifica su casa, labra sus siete columnas, |
| Swedish | Fortsättning av inledningen: Vishetens och fåkunnighetens olika inbjudningar. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "hewn": roughhewn, shewn, unhewn. (additional references) | |
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"Hewn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chewn, ewn, hawn, hawnk, heana, heen, heeng, hein, heln, hemn, henn, heon, heun, heuw, hewan, hewd, Hewin, hewne, Hewo, hewt, hewy, heyn, Hirwyn, Hoehn, hown, Huen, hwe, jewn, phewf, rewn, thewn, zewn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hewn" (pronounced hyuw"n) |
| 3 | -y uw" n | immune, impugn, picayune. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: when. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-w" | |
-1 letter: hen, hew, new, wen. | |
-2 letters: eh, en, he, ne, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-w" | |
+1 letter: shewn, wench, wheen, whens, whine. | |
+2 letters: hewing, nephew, newish, unhewn, wahine, wheens, whenas, whence, whined, whiner, whines, whiney, whinge, whiten, wrench. | |
+3 letters: chewing, chewink, enwheel, hoedown, nephews, nowhere, reshown, shewing, showmen, unwhite, wahines, wenched, wencher, wenches, wennish, whanged, whangee, wheaten, wherein, whereon, whiners, whinged, whinges, whinier, whitens, winched, wincher, winches, woodhen, writhen. | |
+4 letters: anywhere, chewinks, enswathe, enwheels, handsewn, hawknose, headwind, hoedowns, hometown, honewort, honeydew, inswathe, narwhale, newshawk, nonwhite, nowheres, pinwheel, preshown, shrewing, snowshed, snowshoe, somewhen, swanherd, townhome, unchewed, unswathe, unthawed, unwashed, unweight, unwished, unwishes, watchmen, weighing, weighman, weighmen, welching, welshing, wenchers, wenching, whaleman, whalemen, whangees, whatness, wheatens, wheeling, wheelman, wheelmen, wheeping, wheezing, whelming, whelping, whenever, whetting, whiniest, whinnied, whinnier, whinnies, whitened, whitener, whoreson, winchers, wineshop, wishbone, woodhens, wreathen, wrenched, wrenches. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 77 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .--. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0077 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42718980 |
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