23.04.2014:

hew /hjuː/ - сеча, отсичам, одялвам

Meaning:

• to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop.
• to make, shape, or smooth with or as if with cutting blows: to hew a statue from marble.
• to sever (a part) from a whole by means of cutting blows: to hew branches from the tree.
• to cut down; fell: trees hewed down by the storm.