[Sca-cooks] to HEW

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To *hew* something always put me in mind of cutting large pieces of something
that came from a large piece or thing itself.
Phillipa
from my _Webster's New Unabriged Dictionary_ 1983

HEW
1) To cut or chop with ax.  To hack, to gash.
2)To form or shape with an edged instrument.  Often with *out* as to *hew*
out a sepulcher.
"Rather, polishing out old works, then hewing out new"--                 Pope
3)to make cutting or chopping blows with a knife or ax.