hewing, vbl. n.
(hjuːɪŋ)
[f. hew v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb hew, in various senses.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 239/1 Hewynge (or hakkynge), seccio. 1497 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 324 For hewyng & sawyng of an Ankere Stoke—viijd. 1573 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 174 Item for hewing, marking, felling..and carriage. 1639 T. de Grey Compl. Horseman 41 How cometh the farcin..by enter-firing, and hewing, and lastly by spur-galling. 1670 Eachard Cont. Clergy 67 He falls to hacking and hewing, as if he would make all fly into shivers. 1863 M. Howitt F. Bremer's Greece II. xii. 30 Blocks of marble in progress of hewing. |
b. Comb., as hewing-knife, hewing-pick, hewing-stone, etc.
| 1404 Durham MS. Sacr. Roll, j hewyng knyffe. 1611 Cotgr., Marteline, a small hewing picke. 1854 H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 269 [He] brought his hewing stone..from one of the quarries of Moray. |