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adze
or adz
[ adz ]
noun
- an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisel-like steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
verb (used with object)
, adzed, adz·ing.
- to dress or shape (wood) with an adze.
adze
/ ædz /
noun
- a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adze1
First recorded before 900; Middle English ad(e)se, Old English adesa; of obscure origin
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adze1
Old English adesa
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Example Sentences
Adze, Adz, adz, n. a carpenter's tool consisting of a thin arched blade with its edge at right angles to the handle.
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They had not been an hour on shore before one man had an axe stolen from him and another an adze.
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The crack of the inspector's revolver was heard once, but the fugitive had turned like lightning and hurled his adze.
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This adze blade is of jade, and I am told that it represents "the price of a fat man for cannibal purposes."
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Then a sharp tool was seen to descend in the opening—apparently an adze—and the hound's head sunk under the blow.
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