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• a variation of adze.

adz

American  

[adz] / ædz /

noun

adzed, adzing

1. a variant of adze.

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adz adzed

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

Then he used the adz of his ax.

From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Figure 16 represents the only adz or gouge form implement found.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

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 William Henry Venable

The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 John Henry Newman

All the sapwood was adzed off; the ends were "checked" so that they would interlock.

From My Tropic Isle by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

The ends of the poles used for the track are adzed so that they match evenly.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

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