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

I used to feed the chief well and one day I told him Ed had stolen my adz.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris

Then he used the adz of his ax.

From Running Water by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

I had a fine adz and Ed stole it.

From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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