hand-hewn

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymshewn

   Similarcut

Questions about hand-hewn

What does hand-hewn mean?

hand-hewn means "cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel".

How many syllables are in hand-hewn?

hand-hewn has 2 syllables: hand--hewn. The stress falls on "hand-".

What is another word for hand-hewn?

Close synonyms include hewn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hand-hewn a common word?

hand-hewn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.