adz

or adze

[adz]

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noun

an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.

verb (used with object)

to dress or shape (wood) with an adz.

Origin of adz

before 900; Middle English ad(e)se, Old English adesa; *ad-es-, of obscure origin, appears to be formed like ax, and might by association with the latter have lost *w-; if so, < Germanic *wad-, cognate with Lithuanian vedegà adz

Can be confusedadds ads adz

Related Words for adz

hatchet, chopper, adz, tomahawk

Examples from the Web for adz

Historical Examples of adz

I used to feed the chief well and one day I told him Ed had stolen my adz.
Old Rail Fence Corners
Various
Adze, Adz, adz, n. a carpenter's tool consisting of a thin arched blade with its edge at right angles to the handle.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
Let your meal be so hard trod in your cask that you shall need an adz or hatchet to work it out with.
A Source Book in American History to 1787
Various
The thick cuttings from a wedge-shaped wood-working tool, as from an axe or adz.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II
Joshua Rose
When a whaling-captain hove in sight I just rested on my adz awhile and "gammed" with him.
Sailing Alone Around The World
Joshua Slocum