adz
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Max Reinhardt, whose castle�Leopoldskron�overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw.
From Time Magazine Archive
At such times he made what was in the nature of a spring for the door, explaining later that he had been to sharpen his adz.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Fogarty, Thomas
My folk were bushmen and dreaded the sea, but these enemies were salt-water men, who could with axe and adz scoop from the solid tree outrigger canoes and who were terrible in their strength.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
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