adze

See also: adže

English
Some adze heads

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Etymology

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa, from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).[1]

Pronunciation
  • enPR: ădz, IPA(key): /ædz/
  • Rhymes: -ædz
  • Homophones: adds, ads
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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.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
      ...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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References
  1. Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 2.

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Verb

adze (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)

  1. To shape a material using an adze.

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