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

All the sapwood was adzed off; the ends were "checked" so that they would interlock.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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 Butler, Samuel

You see they have only about three-fifths of the bulk of rectangulars, and when they are adzed less than that, and not more than half the bearing for the rail flange.

From Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works by Newman, John Henry

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

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman