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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024adz or adze/ædz/USA pronunciation n. - Building[countable] a tool like an ax for cutting timber, with a curved blade mounted at a right angle to the handle.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024adz (adz),USA pronunciation n. - Buildingan axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
v.t. - Buildingto dress or shape (wood) with an adz.
Also, adze. - Gmc *wad-, cognate with Lithuanian vedegà adz
- bef. 900; Middle English ad(e)se, Old English adesa; *ad-es-, of obscure origin, originally, appears to be formed like ax, and might by association with the latter have lost *w-; if so,
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