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hewn

adjective as in carved

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Other kinds of complex technologies also developed in the Middle Pleistocene, including wooden structures constructed with logs hewn using hafted tools, which are stone blades affixed to wooden or bone handles.

Cars lie crushed and tossed aside where they were hewn out of the path of Israel's D9 armoured bulldozers.

From BBC

Four fresh graves hewn from claylike soil in a historic cemetery where the newly dead are crowding out the old.

This same water, reprocessed as waste, is dumped into hewn ice caverns.

From Salon

The floor was stone blocks fitted together, and the walls were a different type of hewn stone, the huge blocks so solid, she couldn’t imagine anything knocking them down.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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