adz

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

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 Brann, William Cowper

Figure 16 represents the only adz or gouge form implement found.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The ends of the poles used for the track are adzed so that they match evenly.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Knapp, Frederick Malcolm

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 McCulloch-Williams, Martha

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.

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