Chewer vs Hewer - What's the difference?
chewer | hewer |
One who chews
*1848 Western lancet
*:Has been a tobacco chewer thirty-eight years, and a portion of the time to great excess.
*1994 Cynthia P. Smith - The Dog
*:Gum-chewer syndrome: self-inflicted sublingual and self-inflicted buccal trauma.
One who hews.
* 1904 , Kellogg Durland, Among the Fife Miners (page 62)
* 1975 , Lawrence Schofer, The Formation of a Modern Labor Force, Upper Silesia, 1865-1914
As nouns the difference between chewer and hewer
is that chewer is one who chews while hewer is one who hews.chewer
English
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* *hewer
English
Noun
(en noun)- By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal
- 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.