Definitions
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- noun A cutting
tool that has a curved blade set at aright angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. - verb To shape a material using an adze.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of them, described as an "adze," was exhibited by
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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The next minute with wonderful skill our visitor had cut some bamboos with a kind of adze he had in the cord round his waist, slit open and cleaned the fish with a sharp-pointed piece of wood, and then got each one stuck on a piece of bamboo to roast before the fire.
Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas George Manville Fenn 1870
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The use of a dictionary - as in, "It'd be great if 'adze' were a word.
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A top lot will be an 18th-century Tahitian adze used to build Polynesian canoes that Ms. Kloman calls, "a work of art" estimate: €80,000-€120,000.
Tribal Art Takes Center Stage Margaret Studer 2011
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He grabbed his adze from the bench and stood for a moment over the man, arms crossed and shook his head.
Gabbie Zombie Caleb Stright 2011
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I, Mongondro, in my youth, was a good workman with the adze.
THE WHALE TOOTH 2010
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The triggers were lamentable, the inletting appeared to have been done with an adze, and the checking was executed with a rooster claw.
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Liberalism in the classical sense is different by arthur adze on Monday, Aug 3, 2009 at 7: 15: 54 AM
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Agreed by arthur adze on Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 6: 59: 34 PM
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The next is resistance .... by arthur adze (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jun 12, 2009 at 9: 31: 08 AM
qroqqa commented on the word adze
A phonological oddity. This is the only base form I can think of that ends in /dz/, and there are no native bases ending in /ts/ (only Johnny-come-latelys like 'kibbutz'), yet it's an impeccably Anglo-Saxon native word.
August 29, 2008
rolig commented on the word adze
I was always impressed by this word's Scrabble-friendly ability to be spelled adz, which looks even stranger.
August 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word adze
This tool sounds blunt to me. Surely an axe is sharper.
October 21, 2008
thesaraheffect commented on the word adze
Across the sea will come Adze-Head,
crazed in the head,
his cloak with hole for the head,
his stick bent in the head.
He will chant impiety
from a table in front of his house;
all his people will answer
'Be it thus, Be it thus.'
--anonymous
September 19, 2009
sionnach commented on the word adze
his cloak with hole for the head
Wouldn't this be more accurately described as a poncho then? I mean, I know, it doesn't sound nearly quite as sinister. But still....
September 19, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word adze
There's something wrong with thesaraheffect's comment, it's italicizing the whole homepage.
September 19, 2009
sionnach commented on the word adze
Well, strictly speaking, it's only the comments below that comment which appear italicized on the homepage. But I don't see how one can necessarily fault thesaraheffect for what is surely a system glitch.
September 19, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word adze
If you say so...
September 19, 2009
reesetee commented on the word adze
A poncho??
*snort*
September 19, 2009
thesaraheffect commented on the word adze
Sionnach: Don't try to steal my glory, if I want to italicize half the home page just you try and stop me! My nothing is safe from my infectious html.
September 21, 2009
sionnach commented on the word adze
You're just avoiding my poncho question, aren't you?
September 21, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word adze
A friend of mine formed and coached a girls recreational softball team in Boise Idaho in the late 1970's and named it the "Nadz"... yes, the cheer was what one would expect. Another phonological oddity.
September 21, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word adze
"Go Nadz"?
September 22, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word adze
Go Nadz! That's it. Was funny seeing even the girls' parents cheering thusly, then sniggering amongst themselves.
September 22, 2009
thesaraheffect commented on the word adze
I suppose one could consider "cloak" an umbrella term for all armless outerwear.
September 24, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word adze
... Why can't we use armless outerwear? It's way cooler.
September 24, 2009