adze

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

Holm showed Jackson, using his own adze that he had made from yew wood, with a thin handle that flexed.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2020

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

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2020

They’ve also found ample evidence of prehistoric carpentry: stone adzes, other woodworking tools, and even part of a pine log smoothed with an adze.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 25, 2018

“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

They was made of square adzed logs, all weatherboarded on the outside and planked up and plastered on the inside.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration

He cut down twenty trees in all and adzed them smooth, squaring them by rule in good workmanlike fashion.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Samuel Butler

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

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 J. Semeyn