adze
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 4
Definition of adze
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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 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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noun
-
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 with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.”
verb
- To shape a material using an adze.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).
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