HEW Copy link • HEWv. (ascia) dolare: dedolare: edolare (to hew into shape with the axe, from the roughest slate; asciare = to work well with the trowel, in Vitr., 7, 2, 2; exasciare only in the participle, exasciatus, figuratively, well prepared, Plaut., Asin., 2, 2, 93): ascia polire (to make smooth with the axe): caedere (to hew down a tree; to hew out a stone): secare (to cut; to hew into a state for use; e.g., stones, lapides): to hew round about, circumdolare (with the axe): this wood cannot be hewn, respuit haec materia secures. Hewn stone, saxum quadratum (hewn and squared). Cut down, Vid: HEWER, Hewer of wood, qui ligna caedit: lignator (who hews it and fetches it in, etc., for an army). ☞ According to Varr. (L.L.), lignicida was never in use. Hewers of wood, lismarii. Hewer of stone, lapidarius (post- Augustan); quadratarius (late).