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adze

adze

or adz (ădz)
n.
An axelike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood.
[Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.]
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adze

(ædz) or

adz

n
(Tools) a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber
[Old English adesa]
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Noun1.adze - an edge tool used to cut and shape woodadze - an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
adz
edge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)
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Translations
ácsbárdbárd
däxel

adze

adz (US) [ædz] N → azuela f
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Given the twisty grain of many spruce logs, obvious in many barkless logs on the beach today, the splitting of long straight runners, even if less than 2 m long, would have required careful searching for straight-grained logs or very extensive adzing of twisty-grained logs.
Prehistoric Neoeskimo komatiks, Victoria Island, Arctic Canada
Doelman 2008: 133; Gould 1978: 827-830; Smith 2006: 393-395) reflects the suitability of this lithology for adzing hard wood (Gould 1978: 827-829; Kamminga 1985: 17).
Silcrete quarries and artefact distribution in the Central Queensland Highlands, Eastern Australia
We can reasonably claim this to be so because in cognitive terms the extraction and processing of sago pith as food from inside a hard protective covering of spines is not immediately intuitive, involving complex problem-solving skills (Ellen 2004a: 89-91); and because pounding (or adzing) and rasping sago appear to be more specialized transformations of other more basic technical skills: on the one hand, hammering and cutting with respect to more tractable and obviously useful materials than sago pith; and on the other, rubbing abrasive objects on to less hard ones in order to reduce them to smaller pieces.
Distribution and variation in sago extraction equipment: convergent and secondary technologies in island southeast Asia

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