hewer (plural hewers)

1. One who hews.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 2 Chronicles 2:10 ↗:

     And behold, I will giue to thy seruants the hewers that cut timber, twentie thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twentie thousand measures of barley, and twentie thousand bath#Etymology_2|baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.

   • 1975, Lawrence Schofer, The Formation of a Modern Labor Force, Upper Silesia, 1865-1914:

     All three groups were paid less per shift than coal miners. In 1905, for instance, hewers in coal mines received an average 3.79 marks per shift; in zinc and lead, 3.10 marks; in iron, 2.36 marks.

• German: Hauer

1. Surname