adze

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

They’ve also found ample evidence of prehistoric carpentry: stone adzes, other woodworking tools, and even part of a pine log smoothed with an adze.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 25, 2018

“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

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

It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

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