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adze

noun, verb — 2 senses

adze

noun

/ædz/

Etymology 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”)).

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.1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
Derived terms
adzebill, adze-eye hammer, adze hoe, adzelike, adzer, adzework, hand-adze
Related terms
axe, mattock

adze

verb

Etymology 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”)).

1

To shape a material using an adze.

Derived terms
unadzed

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