Meaning & use
adze
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A hand tool with a curved, sharp blade set at a right angle to the handle, used for shaping or smoothing wood.
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The carpenter used an adze to hollow out the wooden canoe.
Ancient builders shaped timber beams with stone adzes long before metal tools existed.
A note on using this word
Distinct from an axe, whose blade is aligned with the handle rather than perpendicular to it; an adze is used more like a hoe, cutting toward the user.
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