Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- v. To shape a material using an adze.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
Etymologies
- From Old English adesa, of obscure origin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One of them, described as an "adze," was exhibited by”
“The next minute with wonderful skill our visitor had cut some bamboos with a kind of adze he had in the cord round his waist, slit open and cleaned the fish with a sharp-pointed piece of wood, and then got each one stuck on a piece of bamboo to roast before the fire.”
“The use of a dictionary - as in, "It'd be great if 'adze' were a word.”
“A top lot will be an 18th-century Tahitian adze used to build Polynesian canoes that Ms. Kloman calls, "a work of art" estimate: €80,000-€120,000.”
“He grabbed his adze from the bench and stood for a moment over the man, arms crossed and shook his head.”
“I, Mongondro, in my youth, was a good workman with the adze.”
“The triggers were lamentable, the inletting appeared to have been done with an adze, and the checking was executed with a rooster claw.”
“Liberalism in the classical sense is different by arthur adze on Monday, Aug 3, 2009 at 7: 15: 54 AM”
“Agreed by arthur adze on Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 6: 59: 34 PM”
“The next is resistance .... by arthur adze (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jun 12, 2009 at 9: 31: 08 AM”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adze’.
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TECH - tools
A very wide category. There are possibly tens of thousands tool words in each of the world's languages.
broom, brush, feather duster, floor buffer, hataki, mop, mop bucket cart, needlegun scaler, pipe cleaner, pressure washer, sandblaster, sponge and 286 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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nachchba's Words
stentorian, blasé, ennui, concinnity, melee, photokeratitis, skiffle, refulgence, mongrel, fakir, caid, eudaimonia and 215 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, A
abaculus, abacus, abaft, abarticular, abbreviate, abeyance, abiding, anthocyanin, antemeridian, arcane, adjure, adduce and 418 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 491 more...
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A Nuncheon of Random Palavery
Yet another "random palavery" list of words that catch my eye or attention for whatever reason. No specific theme here.
causeuse, charientism, cheiloproclitic, phony umbrage, marathon of phony..., colpsinquanonia, concilliabule, emunction, liripip, qualtagh, hemiumbrage, umbrage-lite and 139 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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snarkout's Words
agenbite, scandent, vulpine, ratel, corvid, magpie, meline, musteline, ecdysiast, waxwing, abecedarian, guillotine and 111 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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Logophile, The Back Page (AKA: just c...
node, nexus, locus, toroidal, ivory, kestrel, lyre, muscat, caldera, tapestry, codex, paragon and 103 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for adze.
chained_bear ... Why can't we use armless outerwear? It's way cooler. Sep 24, 2009
thesaraheffect I suppose one could consider "cloak" an umbrella term for all armless outerwear. Sep 24, 2009
hernesheir Go Nadz! That's it. Was funny seeing even the girls' parents cheering thusly, then sniggering amongst themselves. Sep 22, 2009
pterodactyl "Go Nadz"? Sep 22, 2009
hernesheir A friend of mine formed and coached a girls recreational softball team in Boise Idaho in the late 1970's and named it the "Nadz"... yes, the cheer was what one would expect. Another phonological oddity. Sep 21, 2009
sionnach You're just avoiding my poncho question, aren't you? Sep 21, 2009
thesaraheffect Sionnach: Don't try to steal my glory, if I want to italicize half the home page just you try and stop me! My nothing is safe from my infectious html. Sep 21, 2009
reesetee A poncho??
*snort* Sep 19, 2009
Prolagus If you say so... Sep 19, 2009
sionnach Well, strictly speaking, it's only the comments below that comment which appear italicized on the homepage. But I don't see how one can necessarily fault thesaraheffect for what is surely a system glitch. Sep 19, 2009
Prolagus There's something wrong with thesaraheffect's comment, it's italicizing the whole homepage. Sep 19, 2009
sionnach his cloak with hole for the head
Wouldn't this be more accurately described as a poncho then? I mean, I know, it doesn't sound nearly quite as sinister. But still.... Sep 19, 2009
thesaraheffect Across the sea will come Adze-Head,
crazed in the head,
his cloak with hole for the head,
his stick bent in the head.
He will chant impiety
from a table in front of his house;
all his people will answer
'Be it thus, Be it thus.'
--anonymous Sep 19, 2009
bilby This tool sounds blunt to me. Surely an axe is sharper. Oct 21, 2008
rolig I was always impressed by this word's Scrabble-friendly ability to be spelled adz, which looks even stranger. Aug 29, 2008
qroqqa A phonological oddity. This is the only base form I can think of that ends in /dz/, and there are no native bases ending in /ts/ (only Johnny-come-latelys like 'kibbutz'), yet it's an impeccably Anglo-Saxon native word. Aug 29, 2008