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adze

[adz] / ædz /
NOUN
chisel
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Axes created a more symmetrical, oval fracture than the adze, for example.

From Science Magazine Feb. 16, 2023

It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2022

For instance, it was Holm who in the 1960s showed the Tlingit master carver Nathan Jackson surfacing and texturing techniques with an adze.

From Seattle Times Dec. 24, 2020

A wooden keel was shown with men of the adze and the plane.

From Slate Jun. 20, 2020

“I have only a saw, hammer, chisel, and adze, but we are managing alright,” he reported in his diary.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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

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




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