English Explanatory Dictionary

behew

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To carve; adorn; embellish.

Word forms

behew behews behewing behewed behewn

Etymology

From Middle English behewen, from Old English behēawan (“to cut, chip, chop, beat, cut off from, deprive of”), equivalent to be- + hew.

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