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Meaning of "adze" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADZE

Old English adesa.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADZE

adze  [ædz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADZE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adze is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADZE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

adze

Adze

An adze is an ancient type of edge tool dating back to the stone age. Adzes are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking, similar to an axe but with the head mounted perpendicular to the handle. Two basic forms of an adze are the hand adze, a short handled tool swung with one hand, and a foot adze, a long handled tool capable of powerful swings using both hands - the cutting edge usually striking at foot or shin level. The blade of an adze is set at right angles to the tool's shaft, unlike the blade of an axe which is set in line with the shaft. A very similar tool used for digging in hard ground is called a mattock.

Definition of adze in the English dictionary

The definition of adze in the dictionary is a heavy hand tool with a steel cutting blade attached at right angles to a wooden handle, used for dressing timber.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ADZE

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organize
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Synonyms and antonyms of adze in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «adze» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADZE

Find out the translation of adze to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adze from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adze» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

azuela
570 millions of speakers

English

adze
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुल्हाड़ी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

adze
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тесло
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enxó
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাইস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

herminette
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adze
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dechsel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

手斧
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자귀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adze
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dao dùng để đẻo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாய்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Adze
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

keser
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ascia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Adze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тесло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tesla
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκεπάρνι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dissel
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

adze
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

adze
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adze

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADZE»

The term «adze» is regularly used and occupies the 104.447 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADZE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adze

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADZE»

Discover the use of adze in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adze and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fine Woodworking on Bending Wood: 35 Articles
35 Articles Fine Woodworking. Traditional^) adze, left, and adze with carving gouge blade. Drawing, right, shows typical blade profil. Eagle feast dish carved ( not bent) by Haida artist Robert. unril the liquid boiled. A careful fire built under the ...
Fine Woodworking, 1985
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Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians
Most universal was the elbow adze, so called because of its shape. The most southern peoples used an elbow adze with a stone head on a short haft, while Coast Salish, Westcoast and Kwakiutl peoples used a long-handled implement.
Hilary Stewart, 1995
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Serçe Limani: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck Vol. 1, The Ship ...
On the planking surface, a few adze marks crosshatch marks from a large saw in widely scattered locations. There was not enough definition to determine tool sizes. fn. Saw marks are over all original after surfaces. Between 43 cm and 54 cm ...
George F. Bass, Sheila Matthews, J. Richard Steffy, 2004
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Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills
I needed an adze. I had lots of raw material but I chose some tough Morrow Mountain rhyolite, thinking harder to make, harder to break. I modeled my adze roughly after pictures I had seen of Dalton adzes, small, thick, parallel-sided oval  ...
David Wescott, 1999
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Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia: Unraveling the ...
Stepped and Pediform Adze From Kim Jeong-hak's illustrations, the true stepped adze (Figure 5, left column) was uncommon, and was likely the original shape in Korea. The later form, called the grooved adze, saw a change from a single step  ...
Wilhelm G. Solheim, 2006
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The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor, Volume 4: The ...
length (mm) evidence of breakage and/ or reworking (eBr, n=38, Ser, n=21) total 94 and/or reworking was that the form of the adzes was highly variable, with twenty different adze non-shouldered forms, six shouldered forms and two adzes for ...
Charles Higham, A. Kijngam, 2011
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Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among the ...
Dani man with his large adze 53 2.3. Adze haft 54 2.4. A Dani with a newly cut haft 55 2.5. The adze is a complete tool 56 2.6. Axe and adze blade angle nomenclature 56 2.7. Axe types 57 2.8. Geographic reference points 58 2.9. A Dani uses ...
O. W. Hampton, 1999
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Studies in South Asian Culture
L CE B T 581* slim adze flint Gunung Sewu 10.1 4.8 2.9 1.6 582* slim adze silic. limestone Nogodono 9.7 5.2 3.9 1.4 583* slim adze basalt Gombong area 8.8 5.5 42 1.5 584* slim adze silic. limestone Wanaradja, Garut 9.1 3.7 2.6 2.5 585* ...
Senake Bandaranayake
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The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
The common adze is a single-bevel tool worked with the flat face against the wood. This flat face curves gently back from the edge, matching the swing of the tool. While one hand powers the tool, your other hand anchors the end of the handle ...
Roy Underhill, Eleanor Underhill, 2009
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
2. Polished 2B adze with asymmetrical bevel running at 60 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the adze, instead of 90 degrees, owing to resharpening. This was a surface find, dragged up by the tractor in backfilling (Fig. 12). 3. Adze, 2B, broken ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADZE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adze is used in the context of the following news items.
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House thought to be Ray's oldest purchased the year river moved
Both sections of the house had a large six-foot-wide fireplace and the floors were logs split in half and smoothed with an adze or a knife. Most of ... «Richmond Daily News, Jul 15»
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'People of the Adze' at Washington State History Museum …
'People of the Adze' at Washington State History Museum, abstraction at B2 Gallery, park concerts in Steilacoom and new Scott Fife sculpture ... «TheNewsTribune.com, Jun 15»
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From $250K to $1: Seaside Nova Scotia home declared worthless …
Among other signs of Mi'kmaq habitation, the dig found a “celt,” a kind of stone axe or adze. In comments to the CBC this week she said ... «National Post, Jun 15»
4
Seasonal firefighters train for busy season
A fire school participant holds a wildland fire fighting tool called a pulaski, which combines an axe and an adze. About 100 firefighters from ... «East Oregonian, Jun 15»
5
Local man tries to save historic Estacada barn
The big beams that support the barn structure were hewn by hand by an adze, and were fastened with wooden pegs.” Considering the work ... «Portland Tribune, Jun 15»
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Iron Age infant bones found
Apart from the skeleton of the infant, adze, an antler point, semiprecious stones, including carnelian bead, quartz and agate, have also been ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jun 15»
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Native American Arts
An interesting Northwest Coast lot was a Quinault/Makah carved whalebone adze (7 7/8" x 3¼") that has a standing bear at one end. «Maine Antique Digest, Jun 15»
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'Mouse' and white horse!
The adze was one tool he used to produce the ripple effect on tabletops. Browse the gift shop with a wide range of small articles, and an ... «Malton and Pickering Mercury, Jun 15»
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Labor Of Love: Preserving A 226-Year-Old Family Home, And …
We unearthed an adze head that fits the marks in my kitchen ceiling beams, and a shoe last from Asa's cordwainer days, along with a canvas ... «WBUR, May 15»
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Stolen taonga returned to Te Papa
A ceremonial adze stolen from a house on Friday in Pakipaki. ... mere, a whale bone patu and a ceremonial adze with a pounamu blade. «Radio New Zealand, Apr 15»

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