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English
Etymology
From Middle English *ewen, from Old English īwen (“made of yew, yewen”). By surface analysis, yew + -en.
Pronunciation
Adjective
yewen (not comparable)
- (archaic) Made from the wood of the yew tree.
1861, Charles Boner, “The Stag. Cervus elaphus. Linn. Part First.”, in Forest Creatures, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 88:Thus, in an old code it is written, “and no one shall hunt in the deer forest without the Bishop of Maury’s sanction. But if a knight shall come with many-coloured clothes, with an ermine bonnet and a yewen bow with a silken string, with arrows whose shafts are feathered with peacocks’ feathers, and with a snow-white hound with long pendent ears, led in a silken leash, such an one shall be aided to do his will, and without let or hindrance.”
Translations
made from wood of the yew tree
— see yewAnagrams