hewer
- noun
- /ˈhjuːər/
- Archaic
:
tallador
- He was someone, after all, they had been taught, who said black people were cursed to be drawers of water and hewers of wood.
- hewers of wood
Examples
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They shall be unto the rest, hewers of wood and drawers of water.
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I am none of your common hewers of wood and drawers of water.
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You say it's not enough that we be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Fiction book (1990) -
I mean, I like "grey" and all, but a hewer of children was gonna be a tough character for me to wrap my reading mind around happily.
Blog text (30) -
Notwithstanding the huge debate we had about whether free trade was going to send us back to the days of being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and Mr. Mulroney almost getting defeated in the 1988 Canadian election over the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, now everybody talks about free trade.
Academic text (1997) -
But even economists, who are particularly closely involved with development issues, have rarely had starring roles in publicity campaigns of this kind, while historians are habitually seen, when seen at all, as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the higher social sciences.
Academic text (2005) -
Significantly, Stiller is not merely a spinner of tales, but a professional sculptor—a Bildhauer, a hewer of images—transmuting living reality into the cold rigidity of stone.
Academic text (1993) -
The hewer skillfully chopped the logs into smaller pieces for the firewood.
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Traditionally, a hewer would spend their days in the forest, cutting down trees with a heavy axe.
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In ancient times, every village had at least one hewer responsible for providing timber for construction.
Synonyms
A person who chops wood with an axe
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Morphology
Etymology
Hewer comes from the old verb hew, which means 'to cut' or 'to chop'. So a hewer is literally someone who cuts or shapes wood or stone with heavy tools, which is why we use the word for that job today.