adze
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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
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
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
It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
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
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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"The Odyssey" by Homer (Part One)
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