Adzed


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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historical examples

the ends are adzed smooth to present an even surface, drift-bolted to the ties, and all joints broken.
motor truck logging methods frederick malcolm knapp

the ends of the poles used for the track are adzed so that they match evenly.
motor truck logging methods frederick malcolm knapp

he cut down twenty trees in all and adzed them smooth, squaring them by rule in good workmanlike fashion.
the odyssey homer

the sides and roof of wide-split cedar boards were adzed to lie close, and fastened into place by twisted cedar rope.
indian legends of vancouver island alfred carmichael

they were dug from huge poplar logs, squared outside with the broad axe, and adzed within to a smooth finish.
dishes & beverages of the old south martha mcculloch williams

the ties, of course, were all adzed down before the day of change.
scientific american supplement, no. 623, december 10, 1887 various

noun
a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber
n.

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].
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