forhew
English
Etymology
From Old English forhēawan, corresponding to for- + hew.
Verb
forhew (third-person singular simple present forhews, present participle forhewing, simple past forhewed, past participle forhewed or forhewn)
- (obsolete) To cut to pieces.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
- And Beaumayns sawe hym and made hym redy / & ther they mette […] and put their sheldes afore them / & drewe their swerdes / and gaf many grete strokes that somtyme they hurtled to gyder that they felle grouelyng on the ground Thus they fought two houres and more that their sheldes & theyr hauberkes were al forhewen / & in many stedys they were wounded
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