[QUOTE=Steamer;125580]C’mon guys … give the writer a little slack. He was just using an archaic term in a poetic fashion to say that the ship is not changing visibly to any great extent. Hew means to chop or it can mean to sculpt. A “rough hewn log” or a finely “hewn statue.”
He was writing for his audience and must not have thought a bunch of crusty old sailors would be reading the piece.[/QUOTE]
come on steamer…don’t be getting all wobbly on us!