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
Let your meal be so hard trod in your cask that you shall need an adz or hatchet to work it out with.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
Inside of ten minutes he was chuckling over the awkward efforts of one scout to handle an adz and showing him the proper method.
From Under Boy Scout Colors by Joseph Bushnell Ames
His coat-of-arms was a cooper's adz rampant, a beer-barrel couchant and the motto, "Two heads are better than one."
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
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
The ties, of course, were all adzed down before the day of change.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various
It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
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
