Noun Adz Definition and Examples
Definition:
1.noun
A tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood.
- 'On the other side is an adze for chopping steps and clearing rotten ice for screws.'
- 'I lift out one ax, twirl it, slam in the adze, and gingerly test it.'
- 'Some groups mounted blades as axes, others as adzes.'
- 'I could easily plane a length of wood or weld up sheet metal, but would I be as effective if all I had to work with was an adze or forge?'
- 'A carpenter with his adz is an example for the second type of motion.'
- 'He shapes the chairs by using a chainsaw and a chair maker's adze.'
- 'The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened.'
- 'They are simply tools, just like an axe or adze, and only as good as the person using them.'
- 'Stone tools include delicately made blades, microburins, burins, scrapers, and adzes.'
- 'Two cold oranges arrive, looking as if they've been peeled with an adze.'
verb
Cut away the surface of (a piece of wood) with an adze.
- 'Timbers were hand adzed to give them a woody character.'
- 'A family of Tamil shipwrights were adzing baulks of timber into banana-shaped fishing rafts.'
- 'Planks are carefully adzed - never bent - to the correct curve.'
((n.) Alt. of Adze)
Origin:
Old English adesa, of unknown origin.
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