adze
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They’ve also found ample evidence of prehistoric carpentry: stone adzes, other woodworking tools, and even part of a pine log smoothed with an adze.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2018
Tools like chisels, mallets and adzes surround the pole.
From Washington Times • Jul. 2, 2016
The new exhibition, “People of the First Light,” will include birch bark boxes and canoes; beaded epaulets and moccasins; silver coin brooches, birch root clubs, rawhide snowshoes, stone adzes and sweetgrass baskets.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2016
The shed was a long, broad room with a peaked roof and windows; an alcove held log slicks, axes, hammers, saws, and adzes, some of them very old, with intricately carved handles.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 13, 2015
Its inhabitants were reduced to fabricating adzes out of giant clamshells.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing adze
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