adze
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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
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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"The Odyssey" by Homer (Part One)
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