adze
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9.9
- noun
- /ædz/
- UK
- He sculpts primarily with an adze, but a small axe, a hammer, and a scraper are also used.
- adze and axe
- adze and knife
- stone adzes
Examples
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Faced with a long, hard winter and forced to hunt and fish through the pack ice, the ancient Aleuts began experimenting with new types of stone knives and adzes, floats, and sinkers.
Academic text (2007) -
Using only a knife and an adze, the artist is sculpting a divination bowl figure whose style is like that seen in Figure 6.
Academic text (1998) -
Instead of paying a smith to carve it, he can buy an adze at the market and take it to his farm, out of the way of women.
Academic text (1991) -
Specialized war weapons may be lacking; after all, war can be fought with such ordinary tools as adzes or hunting spears.
Academic text (2003) -
Twenty carpenters, each with an adze, stripped away the bark, then began to chop through the pale, moist wood.
Fiction book (2001) -
In addition to an explanation of the meanings of the various mask types, the boys' training includes an introduction to the techniques and methods of mask carving, using a limited tool kit consisting of an axe, adze, dagger, and/or knife.
Academic text (2008) -
The carpenter used the adze to shape the wooden beams for the new house.
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With the adze in hand, she carefully smoothed the surface of the wooden plank.
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He learned to carve intricate designs in wood using an adze during his apprenticeship.
Synonyms
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7.1
A hand tool with a sharp blade for smoothing wood
2
7.4
A power tool with a sharp blade that smooths wood surfaces
1
9.9
A tool with a curved blade at a right angle to the handle that shapes wood
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8.4
A small hand tool that makes wood surfaces smooth
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7.4
A small hand tool that makes wood surfaces even and fine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Adze comes from an old word for a cutting tool and is like the familiar tool axe. A helpful way to remember it is to think of an adze as a 'sideways' axe—its blade sits at a right angle so you can shape and smooth wood.