adz

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With the flames of his store, were his fortunes for the time being extinguished; and his father soon afterward found himself to be as destitute of property as when he first entered the valley of the Mohawk, with only an adz, a pod-auger, and an axe upon his shoulder.

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  • Stick around for few thousand more to get let in on the adz-related in-jokes ... unless that's a —  RA News
  • Pag-amping Reyna … adz's last blog post .. reply on September 5, 2008: adz, hehehe ganito naman talaga dito sa reyna hahaha kahit tingnan mo sa archives mas todo ang comments dun, mild lang to hehehe, that's right i don't want to judge myself because i'm not a book. hehehe —  reyna elena dot com
  • With the flames of his store, were his fortunes for the time being extinguished; and his father soon afterward found himself to be as destitute of property as when he first entered the valley of the Mohawk, with only an adz, a pod-auger, and an axe upon his shoulder. —  Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
  • The hard, dark basalt of which the Hawaiian ko'i_, adz, is made; any pebble, or small water-worn stone, such as would be used to hold in place the pa-ú while spread out to dry Footnote 109: Kane-poha-ka'a_. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
  • It may be made in the form of a circular trough, with scrapers for mixing the clay and water attached to a circular horse-sweep Another convenient mixing machine may be constructed in the following manner: Take a large hollow log, of suitable length, say five or six feet; hew out the inequalities with an adz, and close up the ends with pieces of strong plank, into which bearing have been cut to support a revolving shaft. —  Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
 

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  1. Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.
 

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