adze

Example Sentences

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Axes created a more symmetrical, oval fracture than the adze, for example.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2023

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

Holm showed Jackson, using his own adze that he had made from yew wood, with a thin handle that flexed.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2020

A wooden keel was shown with men of the adze and the plane.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2020

“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