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.