Tohew
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up. obsolete
Etymology
From Middle English tohewen, from Old English tōhēawan (“to hew in pieces, chop up”), from Proto-Germanic *tehawwaną (“to cut to pieces”), equivalent to to- + hew. Cognate with Old Frisian tehawa, Middle Low German tohouwen, Dutch tehouwen, German zerhauen (“to chop up, hack”).
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