Thesaurus / adz
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Adze, Adz, adz, n. a carpenter's tool consisting of a thin arched blade with its edge at right angles to the handle.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 1 OF 4: A-D)VARIOUSThis is generally done with an instrument of bone, cut something in the shape of a small adz, with a serrate edge.
EARLY WESTERN TRAVELS 1748-1846, VOLUME XXVARIOUSIt was a dugout or canoe, made by hollowing with axe and adz a section of a cucumber tree.
A DREAM OF EMPIREWILLIAM HENRY VENABLEFigure 16 represents the only adz or gouge form implement found.
ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONSGERARD FOWKEFrom this fête he returned eagerly to his work, with saw, hammer and adz, at Zaandam.
THE EMPIRE OF RUSSIAJOHN S. C. ABBOTTAt 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.
DWELLERS IN ARCADYALBERT BIGELOW PAINELet your meal be so hard trod in your cask that you shall need an adz or hatchet to work it out with.
A SOURCE BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1787VARIOUSThe thick cuttings from a wedge-shaped wood-working tool, as from an axe or adz.
MODERN MACHINE-SHOP PRACTICE, VOLUMES I AND IIJOSHUA ROSEWhen a whaling-captain hove in sight I just rested on my adz awhile and "gammed" with him.
SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLDJOSHUA SLOCUMI used to feed the chief well and one day I told him Ed had stolen my adz.
OLD RAIL FENCE CORNERSVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO ADZ
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