adz

[adz]

noun

adzed, adzing 

1. a variant of adze.

Example Sentences

The researchers started with two old-school weapons, axes and adzes—a bit of a cross between a hammer and an ax.

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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.

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Aircraft dropping water and chemicals from the sky, and on the ground bulldozers, adzes, chain saws and the boots of thousands of firefighters racing to hold back the flames.

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The 7-inch carved artifact found by a Monroe landowner is suspected to be a grooved adz, a tool used for smoothing or trimming wood, The Charlotte Observer reports.

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Experts used 3D scanner technology to reveal that the open-decked ship was constructed entirely with axes and adzes.

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