Adzing
an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
to dress or shape (wood) with an adz.
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noun
a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber
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also adz, Middle English adese, adse, from Old English adesa “adze, hatchet,” of unknown origin, perhaps somehow related to Old French aisse, Latin ascia “axe” (see ax). Spelling with -z- is from 18c. Adze “has been monosyllabic only since the seventeenth century. The word has no cognates, though it resembles the names of the adz and the hammer in many languages” [Liberman, 2008].
advise (shortwave transmission)
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