adz
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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
This done, the skin was thickly punctured with a little instrument made of sharpened fish bones, and somewhat resembling a carpenter's adz in miniature, but having teeth, instead of a smooth, sharp edge.
I had a fine adz and Ed stole it.
From Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History by Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder
His hair is very thick, black and coarse, and is mostly cut off square in the neck, by means of an adz, I judge, or possibly it is eaten off by moths.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
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 Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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 Newman, John Henry
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 Semeyn, J.
The ties, of course, were all adzed down before the day of change.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
