adze
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- adz (US)
Etymology
[edit]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”)).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adze (plural adzes)
- A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- ...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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]cutting tool
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 2.
Further reading
[edit]Verb
[edit]adze (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)
- To shape a material using an adze.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to shape material with an adze
Anagrams
[edit]Franco-Provençal
[edit]Noun
[edit]adze (plural adze) (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)
- Alternative form of âjo (“age”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche
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