adz

Neamat brandished an adz and hacked the sharp corners of a piece of a mulberry tree trunk into the rounded outline of the rubab it would become in 10 days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2021

Chopping down a sapling means first flaking a stone into an adz, then hammering the adz into the trunk until the tree can be wrenched down.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2016

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

From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Inside of ten minutes he was chuckling over the awkward efforts of one scout to handle an adz and showing him the proper method.

From Under Boy Scout Colors by Joseph Bushnell Ames

Find in the Glossary the meaning of: stern; bulge; spikes; adz; limes; mute; league; thong; fowling; piece.

From The Elson Readers, Book 5 by William H. Elson

The religious art is mainly of two kinds: bultos or wooden sculptures, and retablos, paintings on adzed panels.

From Time Magazine Archive

The house was built of rough split timber, adzed slab-floor, iron roof, with an open fireplace and big "colonial" oven taking up all one end.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde

The ends are adzed smooth to present an even surface, drift-bolted to the ties, and all joints broken.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

They was made of square adzed logs, all weatherboarded on the outside and planked up and plastered on the inside.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration

They were dug from huge poplar logs, squared outside with the broad axe, and adzed within to a smooth finish.

From Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch-Williams