Rough-Hewn
From the Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2016 James LaFond
DEC/11/16
“They sat him down at a rough-hewn table, and a servant brought wine.”
-Two against Tyre
Possibly built on his unusual use of hew and hewn in describing action and its aftermath, Howard employed this action-oriented, compound idiom to imbue even the interior of a shelter with a rough sense of the dynamic.
rough-hewn
adj
1. (Building) cut or hewn roughly, with an unfinished surface
2. shaped roughly or crudely
night city
ranger?
when you're food
solo boxing
within leviathan’s craw
song of the secret gardener
the year the world took the z-pill
hate
broken dance
fiction anthology one
uncle satan
logic of force
sorcerer!
menthol rampage
the gods of boxing
honor among men
orphan nation
let the world fend for itself
son of a lesser god
by the wine dark sea
the greatest lie ever sold
blue eyed daughter of zeus
on combat
thriving in bad places
beasts of aryas
the combat space
book of nightmares
the first boxers
barbarism versus civilization
predation
triumph
fanatic
cracker-boy
under the god of things
masculine axis
taboo you
on the overton railroad
the sunset saga complete
logic of steel
advent america
sons of aryas
songs of aryas
america the brutal
time & cosmos
the greatest boxer
the lesser angels of our nature
all-power-fighting
into leviathan’s maw
dark, distant futures
winter of a fighting life
fate
the fighting edge
z-pill forever
your trojan whorse
wife—