- 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
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 Jenks, Albert Ernest
Then on Monday morning came the log-raising for the poet's lodge, and everybody assembled long before Sam had nicked the last log with his great big adz.
From Over Paradise Ridge A Romance by Daviess, Maria Thompson
Day after day, and week after week, the shipwrights plied their tasks with saw and hammer, with adz and mallet, constructing the vessels to convey men and goods down the river in the Winter.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry
The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sides and roof of wide-split cedar boards were adzed to lie close, and fastened into place by twisted cedar rope.
From Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by Semeyn, J.
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 Butler, Samuel
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 Knapp, Frederick Malcolm
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 Newman, John Henry
