hewer

1. 1.

   a person who hews

   Broaderlaborer

Other forms of hewer

plural

hewers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hewer

What does hewer mean?

hewer means "a person who hews".

How many syllables are in hewer?

hewer has 2 syllables: he-wer. The stress falls on "he". In IPA it is /ˈhjuɚ/.

Is hewer a common word?

hewer 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.