forhew
verbEtymology From Old English forhēawan, corresponding to for- + hew.
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Obsolete To cut to pieces.
- 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 wounded1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII: