Behew

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To carve; adorn; embellish. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English behewen, from Old English behēawan (“to cut, chip, chop, beat, cut off from, deprive of”), equivalent to be- + hew.

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