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

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 planks, with axe, adz, auger, and hammer, were carried on deck.

From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The ties, of course, were all adzed down before the day of change.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various

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

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