adze

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  • It looks a little like a carpenter's adze, though much larger and heavier, the blade being as broad as that of a shovel. —  Jean Francois Millet
  • Instead of the adze, however, the reported corpse was brought on board, and proved, on examination by the doctor, to be very little the worse for his experience, having a slight wound on the thigh and a second one on the wrist. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
  • He was soon on his feet, and the adze was then produced. —  The Life of Captain James Cook
  • [adze], we found to be rather harder than the living tree usually is. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, September 1665
  • 'I had my straw hat fastened by a ribbon, which my friend coveted, so I let him take it, which he did by putting his adze (my gift) against it, close to my ear, and cutting it, off — not the least occasion to be afraid of them.' —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
 

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