What is the meaning of HEWN. Phrases containing HEWN
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Slangs & AI derived meanings
- Amazed. Your gob is your mouth and if you smack your gob, it would be out of amazement.
A rod in pickle is Australian slang for a race horse being secretly prepared for a win and betting coup.
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Humorous way of referring to geriatrics. (Nursing joke)
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Foreman of small gang or acting foreman
Splinter, as in "Miss aa've got a spelk in me finga!'. Was also used to indicate/insult a very thin person. Contributor says he only found out this wasn't standard English when he reached his 20's.
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n.
A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.
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A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.
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Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.
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Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.
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One of the faces of a hewn stone.
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Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
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A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
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To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance.
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A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.
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Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.
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