DCHP-1 Online
hew ((v.)) Lumbering, Obs. 
v. work as a hewer.
- 1883 In each of these [gangs] a full complement of men . . . are busy at work, felling, scoring, hewing, sawing and drawing onto the ice.
- 1883 In each of these [gangs] a full complement of men . . . are busy at work, felling, scoring, hewing, sawing and drawing onto the ice.