wood hewer

See also: woodhewer and wood-hewer

English

Noun

wood hewer (plural wood hewers)

  1. Alternative form of wood-hewer
    • 1972, Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky, A Maimonides Reader, →ISBN, 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, 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, page 47:
      His head had been split with a wood hewer's axe.
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