hewn

[ hyoonor, often, yoon ]

adjective

1. felled and roughly shaped by hewing:

   hewn logs.

2. given a rough surface:

   hewn stone.

Other Words From

• un·hewn adjective
• well-hewn adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hewn¹

1300–50; Middle English hewen, past participle of hew

Example Sentences

Imagine running your fingers over the jagged grey marble from which two gladiatrices were hewn thousands of years ago.

From Salon

Other kinds of complex technologies also developed in the Middle Pleistocene, including wooden structures constructed with logs hewn using hafted tools, which are stone blades affixed to wooden or bone handles.

From Science Daily

Cars lie crushed and tossed aside where they were hewn out of the path of Israel's D9 armoured bulldozers.

From BBC

Four fresh graves hewn from claylike soil in a historic cemetery where the newly dead are crowding out the old.

From Los Angeles Times

This same water, reprocessed as waste, is dumped into hewn ice caverns.

From Salon

Related Words

• chiseled
• engraved
• sculpted
• sculptured