adz

Adze, Adz, adz, n. a carpenter's tool consisting of a thin arched blade with its edge at right angles to the handle.

This is generally done with an instrument of bone, cut something in the shape of a small adz, with a serrate edge.

It was a dugout or canoe, made by hollowing with axe and adz a section of a cucumber tree.

Figure 16 represents the only adz or gouge form implement found.

From this fête he returned eagerly to his work, with saw, hammer and adz, at Zaandam.