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hewer

hewer noun: one who hews.

Noun

hewer (plural hewers)

  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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 2:10
    • 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.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 225

Proper noun capitalized: Hewer

Hewer

  1. A surname.

hewer meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

hewer in Tamil

வெட்டி

hewer in Urdu

چیرنے والا, کاٹنے والا, لکڑ ہارا

hewer in Kannada

ಕಡಿಯುವವನು, ಕತ್ತರಿಸುವವನು, ಛೇದಕ, ಕಲ್ಲಿದ್ದಲನ್ನು ಕಡಿದು ಎಬ್ಬಿಸುವವನು

Examples of hewer in a sentence

  • What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:
  • In 1905, for instance, hewers in coal mines received an average 3.79 marks per shift; in zinc and lead, 3.10 marks; in iron, 2.36 marks.1975, Lawrence Schofer, The Formation of a Modern Labor Force, Upper Silesia, 1865-1914:

Forms of hewer

pluralhewers

Origin of hewer

From hew + -er.

Words formed from hewer

Questions about hewer

What does hewer mean?
Hewer means one who hews.
What is hewer in Tamil?
Hewer in Tamil is வெட்டி. See Hewer meaning in Tamil.
How do you use hewer in a sentence?
What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
What part of speech is hewer?
Hewer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of hewer?
The plural of hewer is hewers.

Words near hewer in the dictionary

  1. Hewell
  2. Hewells
  3. Hewelsfield
  4. Hewelsfield and Brockweir
  5. hewen
  6. hewer
  7. hewers
  8. hewers of wood and drawers of water
  9. Hewertson
  10. Hewertsons
  11. hewes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hewer (page history and authors); Hewer (page history and authors); hewer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hewer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hewer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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