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

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

I had a fine adz and Ed stole it.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris

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 Frederick Malcolm Knapp

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

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