English

Noun

wood hewer ‎(plural wood hewers)

1. Alternative form of wood-hewer
   • 1972, Moses Maimonides & ‎Isadore Twersky, A Maimonides Reader, ISBN 0874412064, page 398:

     You are aware that Hillel the Elder was a wood hewer and he used to study under Shemaiah and Avtalyon, and he was poor in the extreme of poverty.

   • 2014, Patricia Moore, Restored To Life, ISBN 1499040989, page 161:

     Jacob's claim to fame is dubious, not like his father Adam's, the wood hewer par excellence.

   • 2015, Peri Elizabeth Scott, His Rebel Countess, ISBN 1632592223, page 47:

     His head had been split with a wood hewer's axe.