Hewer

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who hews.

    "And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle."

  2. 2
    a person who hews wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

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"And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle."

Etymology

From hew + -er.

Related phrases

hewers of wood and drawers of waterrough-hewerwood hewerwood-hewer

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