An obsolete or dialectal past tense form of 'hew,' equivalent to modern 'hewed.'
Dialectal or archaic past tense of 'hew,' showing variation in how speakers formed the past in Middle English and Early Modern English before standardization settled on 'hewed.'
Before standardized spelling, speakers had multiple ways to say the past tense—'hewt,' 'hewed,' and 'hewn' all coexisted, and watching these variants narrow down shows how writing and printing gradually imposed order on chaotic speech.
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