Crossword-Solution: HEWING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hewing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Hew |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HEWING | anagram | WHINGE |
We have 9 clues for the answer “HEWING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Applying an axe | 1 answer |
| Doing a hatchet job | 1 answer |
| Felling | 1 answer |
| Taking an axe to | 1 answer |
| Wielding an axe | 1 answer |
| Chopping down | 2 answers |
| Chopping. | 3 answers |
| Conforming | 48 answers |
| CUTTING ___ | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HEWING (5)
The idea as to how I might learn to write was suggested to me by being in Durgin and Bailey’s ship-yard, and frequently seeing the ship carpenters, after hewing, and getting a piece of timber ready for use, write on the timber the name of that part of the ship for which it was intended.
Cutting and hewing to right and left, he laid an open path straight through the advancing plant men, and then commenced a mad race for the forest, in the shelter of which he evidently hoped that he might find a haven of refuge.
Hewing to right and left, I beat my way down that warrior-choked spiral until, near the bottom, those below, thinking that an army was descending upon them, turned and fled.
After this manner I began to learn to write: I was much in the ship yard—Master Hugh’s, and that of Durgan & Bailey—and I observed that the carpenters, after hewing and getting a piece of timber ready for use, wrote on it the initials of the name of that part of the ship for which it was intended.
The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
Quotes with HEWING (2)
If the people never fear death, what is the purpose of threatening to kill them? If the people ever fear death, and I were to capture and kill those who are devious, who would dare to be so? If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner. Now, To kill in place of the executioner Is like Hewing wood in place of the master carpenter; Few indeed will escape cutting their own hands!
My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1995–2021).