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adze

[adz] / ædz /
NOUN
chisel
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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

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 E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

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

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 of the poles used for the track are adzed so that they match evenly.

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


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