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
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
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 Forman, Henry Chandlee
From this fête he returned eagerly to his work, with saw, hammer and adz, at Zaandam.
From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ends of the poles used for the track are adzed so that they match evenly.
From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Knapp, Frederick Malcolm
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
The ties, of course, were all adzed down before the day of change.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
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 Butler, Samuel
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