hew

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Sense 3 derives from the phrase.

Verb

 * 1)  To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
 * 2)  To shape; to form.
 * 3)  To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with.
 * 4) * 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, Jennings &amp; Graham, page 428
 * Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
 * 1)  To shape; to form.
 * 2)  To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with.
 * 3) * 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, Jennings &amp; Graham, page 428
 * Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
 * 1)  To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with.
 * 2) * 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, Jennings &amp; Graham, page 428
 * Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
 * 1)  To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with.
 * 2) * 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, Jennings &amp; Graham, page 428
 * Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
 * 1)  To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with.
 * 2) * 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, Jennings &amp; Graham, page 428
 * Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

Translations

 * Belarusian: руба́ць, сячы́
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Latgalian: tēst
 * Latin: dolō
 * Latvian: tēst
 * Maori:, hahau, hauhau
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hugge
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: рѫбити, сѣщи
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rubaś
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: руба́ти, руби́ти, сі́кти


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (форму), обтёсывать,
 * Spanish:, ,


 * Dutch: zich conformeren met, zich richten naar
 * French:, ,
 * Russian:, ,

Noun

 * 1)  Destruction by cutting down or hewing.

Etymology 2
See hue.

Noun

 * 1)  Hue; colour.
 * 2)  Shape; form.
 * 1)  Shape; form.

Noun

 * 1) baboon