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Type Words
Synonyms adz
Type of edge tool

Examples of adze

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Selection, in this broad sense, is a stone adze in the hands of a cabinetmaker.
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Scrapers, engraving tools and adze blades were also included in their toolkits.
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Once hollowed out, the interior was dressed and smoothed out with a knife or adze.
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The finds include palstaveaxe heads, an adze, a cauldron handle and a gold bracelet.
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The adze is also used for demolition of old buildings by hand for salvage.
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It has an adze along with a 4-inch spike on one end and the other end has a pry fork.
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The weight of this adze makes it unsuitable for sustained overhead adzing.
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A stone adze was used by relatively gentle but regular and repeated blows.
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With its long wooden stem and flat adze, the axe looked like a relic from another time.
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More examples
  • Adz: an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
  • An adze is a tool used for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking. Generally, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the adze downwards towards his feet, chipping off pieces of wood, moving backwards as he goes and leaving a relatively smooth surface behind. ...
  • The adze is a vampiric being in Ewe folklore. In the wild, the adze takes the form of a firefly, though it will transform into human shape upon capture. When in human form, the adze has the power to possess humans.
  • A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood; To shape a material using an adze
  • A thin blade mounted perpendicular to the handle on an ice axe that can be used for chopping footholds.
  • A tool, typically made from stone, that was presumed to be used like a modern woodworker's chisel to work wood.
  • An axe-like implement in which the blade is hafted such that the cutting edge lies perpendicular to the handle after the fashion of a hoe. Used primarily for woodworking. trihedral adze. an adze with a triangular cross-section.
  • A tool, like an ax, used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
  • The flat cutting end of the ice axe head.