adze

Noun

adze (plural adzes)

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

4 letters in word "adze": A D E Z.

Anagrams of adze:

• daze

Words found within adze:

ad adz ae da dae de ea ed za zea zed

• Definitions:
• carpenter's tool; consists of an axe-like blade mounted with the edge at right angles to the handle
• [add-ze]- a tool similar to an axe that is mounted crossways and is used for chipping or slicing wood.
• Heavy stone tool used for working wood. Most are thought to have been fitted into a socketed wooden handles. Archeologists often refer to these tools as "distally beveled tools" or "gouges" and suspect some of them were used for other purposes (such as hide working). ...
• a tool, like an ax, used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
• a cutting tool, used in sculpture to rough-shape wood
• A cutting tool that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the handle used chiefly for shaping wood.
• Sharp-edged wood-cutting tool with an arching blade set at right angles to the handle and curving inward. Logs and beams were shaped with the adze.
• An ancient axe like tool with an arched blade at right angles to the handle used for dressing the felloes (qv). The wheelwrights adze is more curved than that of the carpenter. Arbor. An axle or spindle for a wheel or pulley
• A cutting tool differing from an axe in that the blade is set at a right angle to the handle. Used to rough out the upper section of Windsor seats.
• A shipwright's tool, similar to an axe, used for shaping and dressing wood. It was different from an axe in that it had a long slender curved blade set at a right angle to the handle. ***
• adz: an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
• The tool known as the adze (adz in US) (IPA: ) serves for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking. ...

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