...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.
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Adze
//ædz//
Synonyms for "adze" (3 found)
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Translations
81 translations across 51 languages.
A-Pucikwar
1 entries- wolo noun (cutting tool)
Aka-Bea
1 entries- wolo noun (cutting tool)
Aka-Cari
1 entries- olo noun (cutting tool)
Aka-Kede
1 entries- wo noun (cutting tool)
Albanian
1 entries- sqepar noun (cutting tool)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σκέπαρνον noun (cutting tool)
Armenian
1 entries- ուրագ noun (cutting tool)
Assamese
1 entries- চাঁচ noun (cutting tool)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- kərki noun (cutting tool)
- yonmaq verb (to shape material with an adze)
Belarusian
1 entries- цясла́ noun (cutting tool)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тесла́ noun (cutting tool)
Catalan
1 entries- aixa noun (cutting tool)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 錛子 /锛子 noun (cutting tool)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- teslice noun (cutting tool)
Czech
3 entries- skoble noun (cutting tool)
- tesla noun (cutting tool)
- teslice noun (cutting tool)
Dutch
1 entries- dissel noun (cutting tool)
Esperanto
1 entries- adzo noun (cutting tool)
Finnish
4 entries- kourukirves noun (cutting tool)
- koverokirves noun (cutting tool)
- talso noun (cutting tool)
- telso noun (cutting tool)
French
1 entries- herminette noun (cutting tool)
Galician
1 entries- aixola noun (cutting tool)
Georgian
2 entries- სათლელი noun (cutting tool)
- გათლა verb (to shape material with an adze)
German
2 entries- Dechsel noun (cutting tool)
- Queraxt noun (cutting tool)
Greek
1 entries- σκεπάρνι noun (cutting tool)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַעֲצָד noun (cutting tool)
Hungarian
2 entries- bárd noun (cutting tool)
- ácsbárd noun (cutting tool)
Indonesian
1 entries- beliung noun (cutting tool)
Irish
1 entries- tál noun (cutting tool)
Japanese
1 entries- 釿 noun (cutting tool)
Korean
1 entries- 까뀌 noun (cutting tool)
Macedonian
2 entries- бра́два noun (cutting tool)
- те́сла noun (cutting tool)
Malay
1 entries- beliung noun (cutting tool)
Mongolian
1 entries- ооль noun (cutting tool)
Mudburra
1 entries- bama noun (cutting tool)
Old Irish
1 entries- tál noun (cutting tool)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- فاس noun (cutting tool)
- كسر noun (cutting tool)
Persian
1 entries- تیشه noun (cutting tool)
Polish
4 entries- ciesak noun (cutting tool)
- cieślica noun (cutting tool)
- cioska noun (cutting tool)
- ciosła noun (cutting tool)
Portuguese
1 entries- enxó noun (cutting tool)
Romanian
1 entries- teslă noun (cutting tool)
Russian
3 entries- де́ксель noun (cutting tool)
- тесло́ noun (cutting tool)
- теса́ть verb (to shape material with an adze)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bradvica noun (cutting tool)
- brȁdva noun (cutting tool)
- teslica noun (cutting tool)
- tȅsla noun (cutting tool)
Spanish
1 entries- azuela noun (cutting tool)
Swahili
1 entries- tezo noun (cutting tool)
Swedish
3 entries- däxel noun (cutting tool)
- skarvyxa noun (cutting tool)
- tillyxa verb (to shape material with an adze)
Tagalog
2 entries- daras noun (cutting tool)
- pandaras noun (cutting tool)
Telugu
1 entries- బాడిస noun (cutting tool)
Thai
2 entries- ขวานถากไม้ noun (cutting tool)
- ผึ่ง noun (cutting tool)
Turkish
2 entries- kerki noun (cutting tool)
- keser noun (cutting tool)
Ukrainian
1 entries- тесло́ noun (cutting tool)
Welsh
1 entries- neddyf noun (cutting tool)
White Hmong
1 entries- piab noun (cutting tool)
Sample sentences
1 total sentences available.
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