If you hew stone or wood, you cut it, for example with an axe.
例句
He felled, peeled and hewed his own timber.他自己砍树、剥皮、劈成木材。
VERB
(在岩石或木材上)砍成,劈出
If something is hewn from stone or wood, it is cut from stone or wood.
例句
...the rock from which the lower chambers and subterranean passageways have been hewn.开凿出下闸室和地下通道的岩石...medieval monasteries hewn out of the rockface.在岩壁上凿出的中世纪修道院
英汉词典释义
vt.
(用斧、刀等)砍、劈
hew stones采石
砍成;劈出;开辟
He hewed a canoe out of a tree trunk.他把一根树干凿成独木舟。The hunters hewed a path through the jungle.猎手们在森林里开出了一条路。