- 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
Ceremonial adz, with carved ornament imitating textile wrapping.
From A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-'85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, (pages 189-252) by William Henry Holmes
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 Maria Thompson Daviess
It was a dugout or canoe, made by hollowing with axe and adz a section of a cucumber tree.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable
The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Frederick Malcolm Knapp
They were dug from huge poplar logs, squared outside with the broad axe, and adzed within to a smooth finish.
From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams
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
