- a variation of adze.
adz
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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
Figure 16 represents the only adz or gouge form implement found.
From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke
We have above considered the integration of an equation dz = adz + bdy on the hypothesis that the condition da/dy + bda/dz = db/dz + adb/dz.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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 Charles Neville Buck
The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
The ends are adzed smooth to present an even surface, drift-bolted to the ties, and all joints broken.
From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp
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 Frederick Malcolm Knapp
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
