To cut or shape something in a rough or crude way, especially wood or stone.
Roughhewing can make people think of old-fashioned building or making things by hand.
Examples:
He used an axe to roughhew the log into a bench.
The carpenter roughhewed the wood into a simple shape.
She roughhews the stone to make a statue.
I tried to roughhew the tree with a spoon, but it didn't work!
Long ago, people roughhewed all their furniture from trees.
The old man roughhewed the wood with his big knife.