"hewer" meaning in English

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          "word": "hewers of wood and drawers of water"
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          "word": "rough-hewer"
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          "word": "wood hewer"
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          "text": "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 baths of wine, and twentie thousand baths of oyle.",
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          "ref": "1904, Kellogg Durland, Among the Fife Miners, page 62:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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          "word": "дървосекач"
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          "sense": "one who hews",
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          "sense": "one who hews",
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