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Wiktionary

  1. n. A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
  2. v. To shape a material using an adze.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an edge tool used to cut and shape wood

Etymologies

  1. From Old English adesa, of obscure origin. (Wiktionary)

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  • 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

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‘adze’ has been looked up 7077 times, added to 27 lists, commented on 16 times, and has a Scrabble score of 14.