What's the difference between ewer and hewer?

Ewer


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An anthropometric study in the Asmat population, a coastal group of Papua living in the south-western part of Irian Jaya (Indonesian New Guinea) covered 318 subjects of both sexes, belonging to four different villages (Basim, Senggo, Ewer and Piramanak) of the Asmat region.
  • (2) An initial report of some of these results has been published previously (Ewer et al., 1988).
  • (3) Landon Ewers, chief information officer at Amalgamated Bank, said: “Donald Trump has personally attacked federal judges and a disturbing portion of Americans appear to think he should be able to override the courts.

Hewer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hews.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ladies are pursued past boarded-up branches of JJB Sports by a yawning Nick Hewer, whose parallel career as the host of Countdown has left him openly uninterested in the antics of a group of middle-management parakeets.
  • (2) Back in 2007, when Hopkins was the breakout contestant on series three of The Apprentice , co-presenter Nick Hewer told her, “Here’s what I think is going on.
  • (3) We still have an assumption that children from poorer backgrounds are destined to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.

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