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wood hewer en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wood-hewer.
   alt of wood-hewer
   • 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. 1972, Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky, A Maimonides Reader, →ISBN, page 398:
   • His head had been split with a wood hewer's axe. 2015, Peri Elizabeth Scott, His Rebel Countess, →ISBN, page 47:
   • Jacob's claim to fame is dubious, not like his father Adam's, the wood hewer par excellence. 2014, Patricia Moore, Restored To Life, →ISBN, page 161:

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