adz

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

Find in the Glossary the meaning of: stern; bulge; spikes; adz; limes; mute; league; thong; fowling; piece.

From The Elson Readers, Book 5 by William H. Elson

At such times he made what was in the nature of a spring for the door, explaining later that he had been to sharpen his adz.

From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty

He hears the sound of the cooper's adz, And makes him too his dupe, For he sighs in his ear from the shaving pile As he hammers on the hoop.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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