adze blade
1adze — adz [ædz] n [: Old English; Origin: adesa] a sharp tool with the blade at a right angle to the handle, used to shape wood …
2adze — (US adz) ► NOUN ▪ a tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle. ORIGIN Old English …
3Adze — An adze or adz (PronEng|ædz) is a tool used for smoothing rough cut wood in hand woodworking. Generally, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the adze downwards towards their feet, chipping off pieces of wood, moving backwards as… …
4Blade — For other uses, see Blade (disambiguation). Knife blades A blade is that portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with a cutting edge and/or a pointed tip that is designed to cut and/or puncture, stab, slash, chop, slice, thrust, or scrape animate… …
5adze — /adz/, n., v.t., adzed, adzing. adz. * * * or adz Hand tool for shaping wood. A handheld stone chipped to form a blade, it is one of the earliest tools, and was used widely in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. By Egyptian times, it had… …
6Adze — Adz Adz, Adze Adze, n. [OE. adese, adis, adse, AS. adesa, adese, ax, hatchet.] 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. [1913… …
7adze — 1. noun /ædz/ A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood. ...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… …
8adze — [adz] (US adz) noun a tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle. verb (adz, adzing, adzed) cut with an adze. Origin OE adesa, of unknown origin …
9adze — n. & v. (US adz) n. a tool for cutting away the surface of wood, like an axe with an arched blade at right angles to the handle. v.tr. dress or cut with an adze. Etymology: OE adesa …
10adze — also adz noun Etymology: Middle English adse, from Old English adesa Date: before 12th century a cutting tool that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the handle and is used chiefly for shaping wood …
