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.
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Hewer
Synonyms for "hewer"
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6 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дървосекач noun (one who hews)
- каменоделец noun (one who hews)
Dutch
1 entries- houwer noun (one who hews)
Esperanto
1 entries- ŝtonhakisto noun (one who hews)
Finnish
1 entries- puunhakkaaja noun (one who hews)
German
1 entries- Hauer noun (one who hews)
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The Larrakiahs at Port Darwin seem to have identified themselves with the white population, and became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the settlement.
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By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal […]
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But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
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