ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use hand-hewn In A Sentence
- Like an old stone barn with hand-hewn beams, they were built to last, enduring monuments to craftsmanship and common sense.
- Though the next eruption will likely follow a similar path, thousands of homes, shacks of hand-hewn eucalyptus boards and sheet-metal roofs, have been built directly atop the old flow.
- Nestled among shimmering aspens and cottonwoods on 3 secluded, wildflower-dappled acres, this hand-hewn log home serves up a feast for the eyes.
- Trees that towered over prairie rivers were transformed into pirogues (hand-hewn canoes for trappers and traders), stockades for early military forts, and vigas or ceiling beams for adobe homesteads.
- Please help us celebrate the grace of timber frames, the tactile shapeliness of hand-hewn logs, and the serene experience of soft beams of light filtering through the high ceiling of a gambrel loft.
- The 31-room lodge sits right on Lake Superior and is all Scandinavian, with hand-hewn beams, massive stone fireplaces, and guest rooms of high-gloss knotty pine.
- In hand-hewn boats, these brave seafarers paddled their way from distant shores, traversing thousands of kilometres of open sea.
- Or choose from hand-hewn barn beams and pole rafters, rich in character and historic detail with a beautiful aged, natural patina.
- Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze. Chapter XIII
