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Adze

//ædz// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.

    "...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."

  2. 2
    an edge tool used to cut and shape wood wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To shape a material using an adze.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).

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