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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

This done, the skin was thickly punctured with a little instrument made of sharpened fish bones, and somewhat resembling a carpenter's adz in miniature, but having teeth, instead of a smooth, sharp edge.

From A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island by Horace Holden

From this fête he returned eagerly to his work, with saw, hammer and adz, at Zaandam.

From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

These trees were felled and the troughs dug with the wasay, a short-handled tool with an iron blade only an inch or an inch and a half wide, and convertible alike into ax and adz.

From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He cut down twenty trees in all and adzed them smooth, squaring them by rule in good workmanlike fashion.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler

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

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

The sides and roof of wide-split cedar boards were adzed to lie close, and fastened into place by twisted cedar rope.

From Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by J. Semeyn

They were dug from huge poplar logs, squared outside with the broad axe, and adzed within to a smooth finish.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams

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