单词 | adzing |
释义 | adzingn. The action of carving or cutting something with an adze. ΚΠ 1832 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. Conjoined Ser. 1 53 By this adaptation of the rotary cutter, he is enabled to..dispense with the hand labour of adzing. 1892 Littell's Living Age 27 Feb. 540/1 The native carpenter, when Hugh de Lacy was showing him the mode of chipping and adzing, suddenly took his axe and brained de Lacy. 1953 A. Jobson Househ. & Country Crafts xx. 182 Of the four remaining tools, the top two are travishers, for finishing off the elm seats after adzing. 1996 R. Neich in D. C. Starzecka Maori Art & Culture iv. 76 The coarse chopping movements of new metal axes never replaced the time-honoured techniques of controlled adzing. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1832 |
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