Behew
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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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