Meaning of rough-hew | Babel Free

Definitions

To cut or shape something roughly without finishing or tidying the surface.

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Examples

“Our indiscretion sometimes serues vs well, / When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, / There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will.”

“It seems to me, then, that one must either be a ‘marinist’ […], or be a sub-äerialist, and believe that in Pre-Permian times the sea rough-hewed a block of country which the atmosphere has ever since been carving into its now complex and beautiful form.”

“Its erosion is a constant process of alternate rough hewing and planing.”

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