- 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
It was the custom to cut and adz the timbers so that they would fit together neatly; and in order to do that, Roman numerals were cut into each timber to identify it.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman
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
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
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
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
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
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