hew

hew (something) out of (something)

To carve or cut a particular shape or object out of a piece of wood. Yeah, I hewed this bottle opener out of a piece of wood I had lying around the shop.
See also: hew, of, out

hew down

To cut something down, typically a tree. A noun or pronoun can be used between "hew" and "down." If we're going to build houses here, then we need to hew down a lot of these trees.
See also: down, hew

hew out

To carve or cut a particular shape or object out of a piece of wood. A noun or pronoun can be used between "hew" and "out." I'm going to hew out a bottle opener—what are you making?
See also: hew, out

hew to (something)

To adhere to a particular idea or rule. The teacher will deduct points if you don't hew to the guidelines for the project.
See also: hew
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hew something down

to fell something wooden, usually a tree. We will have to hew most of this forest down. They hewed down the tree.
See also: down, hew

hew something out of something

 and hew something out
to carve the shape of something out of something wooden. Dan hewed each of the posts out of a tree trunk. He hewed out a number of posts.
See also: hew, of, out

hew to something

to conform to a rule or principle. I wish you would hew to the rules a little better. Sarah refuses to hew to the company policies.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

hew to

v.
To conform to some law, set of beliefs, or course of action: I hope our children will hew to the traditions of our ancestors.
See also: hew
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • hew (something) out of (something)
  • hew out of
  • of a piece
  • (all) of a piece
  • all of a piece
  • all of a piece with (something)
  • all of a piece with something
  • take a piece out of (one)
  • splinter off
  • splinter off (from something)
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Supplies the most costly proportion of the HEW program accounted for almost double the salary costs and thus we multiplied our salary estimates by an additional 188% to capture this cost making the overall multiplier equivalent to 270% of the salary costs.
Hew said that many patients 'lack awareness of cancer,' its symptoms and the treatments that are available especially in rural areas.
Within the control zone, the HEW focus group were aware of eHealth as an immediate system to receive and share health information, but had not used eHealth.
Hew said: "Doing some of these things now might be viewed as fairly dangerous but in the 1970s, it wasn't.
Fleming was made responsible for the organization, about a year prior to the October deadline, HIPAA requirements were indeed looming large for HeW.
The COM interface would extend the utilization of the Tekla Xpower system and would enable its integration into other applications and programs used by HEW, according to Tekla.
The total HEW protein extract was prepared essentially according to the method of Bernhisel-Broadbent et al.
Lars Josefsson, Chairman of Sweden's leading energy group Vattenfall, has expressed optimism in the creation by mid-2003 of a new German energy pole combining the four regional groups Bewag, HEW, Veag and Laubag.
Developing innovative mining exploration techniques and methods to look under the North's geological blanket of rocks and clay is the focus of a hew $8 million mineral exploration program.
HEW accused of weakening the intent of Moss amendments.
Accompanied with a few illustrations on how to hew and a couple of axes, neither of which was a broadax, we attempted to create timbers.
Former DAP member Hew Kuan Yau, or 'Superman' Hew, has again caused controversy with a profanity-laden rally speech criticising press coverage of DAP's Nga Kor Ming bid for Teluk Intan.
announced that it has hired Chris Hew as vice president in its Mid-Atlantic Capital Markets team in Bethesda, Maryland.
The Western Mail understands there were plans, discussed in January, to transfer Wic subscriptions to a new international fund run centrally by HEW.
And in many ways its North East link is one small part of an extraordinary global family saga that first grabbed the attention of Hew Stevenson when he was a boy living in Tynemouth.