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

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

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

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

Let your meal be so hard trod in your cask that you shall need an adz or hatchet to work it out with.

From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

The sides and roof of wide-split cedar boards were adzed to lie close, and fastened into place by twisted cedar rope.

From Indian Legends of Vancouver Island by J. Semeyn

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

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 John Henry Newman