adze

Axes created a more symmetrical, oval fracture than the adze, for example.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 16, 2023

It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

For instance, it was Holm who in the 1960s showed the Tlingit master carver Nathan Jackson surfacing and texturing techniques with an adze.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2020

A wooden keel was shown with men of the adze and the plane.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

“I have only a saw, hammer, chisel, and adze, but we are managing alright,” he reported in his diary.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 house was built of rough split timber, adzed slab-floor, iron roof, with an open fireplace and big "colonial" oven taking up all one end.

From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde

The ties, of course, were all adzed down before the day of change.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 by Various