Look up: adze

1. adze
   a tool used by coopers for trimming the surface of planks or staves Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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2. Adze
   a tool for shaping wood, which is basically an axe with a curved blade, pointing inwards at right angles to the handle. In skilled hands the adze can achieve a very smooth surface. It was used not just for shaping long timbers such as roof beams, but for furniture building ranging from tab...
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3. adze
   Long-handled axe with the blade at right angles to the shaft, used in furniture-making, for heavy trimming and shaping. The slightly hollowed-out seats of WINDSOR CHAIRS, for example, were shaped with an adze with a curved cutting edge.
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4. adze
   A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood. ... Origin: OE. Adese, adis, adse, AS. Adesa, adese, ax, hatchet. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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5. Adze
   • (n.) A carpenter`s or cooper`s tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.
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6. adze
   adz, adze (ADZ) A cutting tool for shaping heavy timbers, similar to an ax but with a blade set across the end of the handle and curving inward: 'He used an adze to take the bark off the tree he just cut down.' Confusing Words: Units, Groups A to Z.
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7. Adze
   A tool, typically made from stone, that was presumed to be used like a modern woodworker's chisel to work wood.
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8. adze
   adze, tool similar in purpose and use to an axe but with the cutting edge at right angles to the handle rather than aligned with it. The details of construction of a particular adze will depend on its intended application. Some types have a single cutting edge with the rear side of the head formed i...
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9. Adze
   An adze is a carpenter's instrument consisting of an arched cutting blade mounted on a handle in a transverse arrangement, rather in the parallel arrangement of an axe. The adze is used for cutting away horizontal surfaces of wood.
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10. adze
    carpenter's or cooper's tool, like an ax with the blade set at right angles to the handle and curving inwards towards it; used for cutting or slicing away the surface of wood.
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11. Adze
    (folklore) The `adze` is a vampiric being in Ewe folklore. In the wild, the adze takes the form of a firefly, though it will transform into human shape upon capture. When in human form, the adze has the power to possess humans. People, male or female, possessed by an adze are viewed as witche...
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