adz

The researchers started with two old-school weapons, axes and adzes—a bit of a cross between a hammer and an ax.

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.

Aircraft dropping water and chemicals from the sky, and on the ground bulldozers, adzes, chain saws and the boots of thousands of firefighters racing to hold back the flames.

The 7-inch carved artifact found by a Monroe landowner is suspected to be a grooved adz, a tool used for smoothing or trimming wood, The Charlotte Observer reports.

Experts used 3D scanner technology to reveal that the open-decked ship was constructed entirely with axes and adzes.