- a variation of adze.
adz
Americannoun
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Neamat brandished an adz and hacked the sharp corners of a piece of a mulberry tree trunk into the rounded outline of the rubab it would become in 10 days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
Chopping down a sapling means first flaking a stone into an adz, then hammering the adz into the trunk until the tree can be wrenched down.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2016
The planks, with axe, adz, auger, and hammer, were carried on deck.
From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
Day after day, and week after week, the shipwrights plied their tasks with saw and hammer, with adz and mallet, constructing the vessels to convey men and goods down the river in the Winter.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry
Figure 16 represents the only adz or gouge form implement found.
From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard
The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
The ends are adzed smooth to present an even surface, drift-bolted to the ties, and all joints broken.
From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Knapp, Frederick Malcolm
They were dug from huge poplar logs, squared outside with the broad axe, and adzed within to a smooth finish.
From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by McCulloch-Williams, Martha
You see they have only about three-fifths of the bulk of rectangulars, and when they are adzed less than that, and not more than half the bearing for the rail flange.
From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry
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