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

Find in the Glossary the meaning of: stern; bulge; spikes; adz; limes; mute; league; thong; fowling; piece.

From The Elson Readers, Book 5 by William H. Elson

My folk were bushmen and dreaded the sea, but these enemies were salt-water men, who could with axe and adz scoop from the solid tree outrigger canoes and who were terrible in their strength.

From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

His hair is very thick, black and coarse, and is mostly cut off square in the neck, by means of an adz, I judge, or possibly it is eaten off by moths.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It had been adzed to the smoothness of an axe-handle.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

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