hew an oak.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

hew out a path in the rock.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

October 21, 2009 at 6:01 am an i will hug yew an squeeze yew and call hew jorge!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I lub yu! I missed yu! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

"hew" -- "hew," which was answered from a little distance, and looking round, we discovered another roof with an ape seated under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilds of Africa] Reference

It took them a long while to hew down those fine old trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

The quarry is deep, the tools too weak to hew out the stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But new team will still have to hew to his tax-cut obsession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Wisdom] Reference

The trick is to make even local varieties hew closely to the standard formula.    From Wordnik.com.  [This One’s For the Girls] Reference

It took strength and a good trained eye to hew timber flat with one of these axes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

It will hew strictly to the up-close-and-personal furrow that Arledge first hoed decades ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rings Master] Reference

Shall we bow our heads and offer that prayer, and hew close to that line, steadily, faithfully?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

Their tale runs as follows: Ages ago there went one Sunday an old man into the woods to hew sticks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

And Solomon had seventy thousand to carry burdens, and eighty thousand to hew stones in the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference

Will they hew to their gold standard or, in the end, make an accommodation that the industry can accept?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Tobacco Say 'Aaaaah'] Reference

Now, Sarajevo must hew to a last-resort strategy that relies on diplomats to fight their battles for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strategy: Accept Defeat] Reference

When kindling was needed, my father would raise the puncheons which made our floor and hew some from these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

Sawyer was among the first to hew to that path, having been a top aide to Richard Nixon before landing at CBS.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcast News] Reference

It required to hew a way as it were to his perceptions, to tunnel his mind for the passage of a new conception.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

Given the opportunities he had thrown away and he would hew a path to her as straight as a prairie railroad bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

It may be, then, that to all living beings there is a Destiny "that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Palmistry for All] Reference

Some men marked where they were to hew but father had such a good eye that he could hew straight without a mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

The heavy vines obstructed his passage, and he was forced to cut and hew his way through the edge of the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

The job now was to hew the frozen meat out of the receptacles and get it packed in manageable crates for shipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

Yet for all their deconstructionist affectations, MTV's new toons hew to a formula as predictable as any sitcom's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Beavis And Butt-Head] Reference

And the king's men pursue them fiercely, and hack and hew, and cleave, and brain them, and call the count a traitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

I like the men who do things, who plow and sow and reap, who build and delve and hew things while dreamers are asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rippling Rhymes] Reference

The Off Duty lifestyle section will hew more toward high-end consumer reporting: fashion, tech, home decorating and design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street Journal Book Review: Will It Sink Or Swim?] Reference

Every autumn they sent men with axes into the forest to hew down the great trees, and chop them into firewood for the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference

We love the fight and our delight grows as the strife increases; we slash and slay and hew our way to win the golden pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rippling Rhymes] Reference

The political logic is sound -- and Democrats hew to it when they're in the minority, too -- but it makes compromise difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Republican stimulus that just might work] Reference

You know your Shakespeare, John, and he says most truly: 'There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

In the coming days and months, they will pressure the Administration to hew closely to its artificial timeline for pulling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sohrab Ahmari: Iran and the Radical Sunnis] Reference

They hew the bark from two sides of the tree, and near its roots cut a niche to receive the juice that does not gum on its sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference

But Wieczorek believes these kids are salvageable; he says few of them understand, much less hew, to extreme-right-wing ideology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teaching Sensitivity To Skinheads] Reference

Partnership in the U. S.-led war on terror has already given Beijing new impetus to hew to the international political mainstream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning The Page] Reference

Last year the exchange forced companies with shares traded on the NYSE to hew to a variety of "good corporate governance" policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Big Greed At The Big Board] Reference

The rapid increase of the world's population which has occurred, especially within the last two centuries, is a hew world experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference

He studied plans to gain his own, fair visions rose before his eyes; he'd hew a pathway to his throne -- and he forgot the matron's pies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rippling Rhymes] Reference

One of the chaplains of the filibusters carried a hatchet specially sharpened, to hew down the wooden images in the churches of Louisburgh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference