To cut; especially, to cut with an ax, a hatchet, or a sword with a swinging blow; cut with a heavy blow or with repeated blows: as, to hew down a tree.To form or shape by blows with a sharp instrument; cut roughly into form; shape out by cutting: often with out: as, to hew timber; to hew out a sepulcher from a rock.To cut; inflict cutting blows.n. Destruction by cutting down.n. An obsolete spelling of hue.n. An obsolete spelling of hue.