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To dig out with an Axe like a Canoe ,you hue out the wood.

hue |(h)yo?o|
noun
a color or shade: her face lost its golden hue | verdigris is greenish-yellow in hue.
• the attribute of a color by virtue of which it is discernible as red, green, etc., and which is dependent on its dominant wavelength, and independent of intensity or lightness.
• character; aspect: men of all political hues submerged their feuds.
DERIVATIVES
hued adjective [ in combination ] : rainbow-hued,
hueless adjective
ORIGIN Old English h?w, h?ow (also ‘form, appearance,’ obsolete except in Scots), of Germanic origin; related to Swedish hy ‘skin, complexion.’ The sense ‘color, shade’ dates from the mid 19th cent.