adze
noun/ædz/
Etymology
From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).
Definitions
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in…
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- ...if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
To shape a material using an adze.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA