forhew means to cut to pieces. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
From Old English forhēawan, corresponding to for- + hew.
verb
- To cut to pieces.“And Beaumayns sawe hym and made hym redy / & ther they mette[…]and put their sheldes afore them / & drewe their swerdes / and gaf many grete strokes that somtyme they hurtled to gyder that they felle grouelyng on the ground Thus they fought two houres and more that their sheldes & theyr hauberkes were al forhewen / & in many stedys they were wounded”