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plural adzes
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. quotations examples
...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
third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed
To shape a material using an adze. examples