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Webster 1913 Edition
Adze
{
, Adz
,Adze
}Noun.
[OE.
adese
, adis
, adse
, AS. adesa
, adese
, ax, hatchet.] A carpenter’s or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
Definition 2024
adze
adze
See also: adže
English
Some adze heads
Alternative forms
- adz (US)
Noun
adze (plural adzes)
- A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- ...if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
Translations
cutting tool
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References
- ↑ Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 2.
Verb
adze (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)
- To shape a material using an adze.
Translations
to shape material with an adze