adz

Example Sentences

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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

Max Reinhardt, whose castle�Leopoldskron�overlooks the crenelated streets of the old cathedral town, sent some weeks ago an army of mercenaries against the riding school with billhook, adz, hammer, saw.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Baldwin, James

Day after day, and week after week, the shipwrights plied their tasks with saw and hammer, with adz and mallet, constructing the vessels to convey men and goods down the river in the Winter.

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry