adze
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- an edge tool used to cut and shape wood
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- 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
- Cradling the stone adze, I turned my back to the valefolk. — The Dragons at War
- 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 â” not the least occasion to be afraid of them.' — Life of John Coleridge Patteson
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