- 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
We have above considered the integration of an equation dz = adz + bdy on the hypothesis that the condition da/dy + bda/dz = db/dz + adb/dz.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
Then on Monday morning came the log-raising for the poet's lodge, and everybody assembled long before Sam had nicked the last log with his great big adz.
From Over Paradise Ridge A Romance by Maria Thompson Daviess
Barth was swinging his ax and smiting the ice with the adz.
From The Silent Barrier by Louis Tracy
The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The house was built of rough split timber, adzed slab-floor, iron roof, with an open fireplace and big "colonial" oven taking up all one end.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
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
They was made of square adzed logs, all weatherboarded on the outside and planked up and plastered on the inside.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration
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