Vocabulary Word
Word: hew
Definition: cut to pieces with ax or sword; chop; N.
Definition: cut to pieces with ax or sword; chop; N.
Sentences Containing 'hew'
A favorite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
Don Quixote merely observed him steadily, longing for him to leap from the cart and come to close quarters with him, when he hoped to hew him in pieces.
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