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- noun Plural form of
adze . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
adze .
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Examples
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The stone which makes the blade of their adzes is a kind of basaltes, of
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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I haven't seen a pearl-shell fish-hook in years, but I swear that Kalakaua accumulated ten thousand of them, to say nothing of human jaw-bone fish-hooks, and feather cloaks, and capes and helmets, and stone adzes, and poi-pounders of phallic design.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Taboo poi bowls and finger bowls, left-handed adzes of the canoe gods, lava-cup lamps, stone mortars and pestles and poi-pounders.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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And adzes again, a myriad of them, beautiful ones, from an ounce in weight for the finer carving of idols to fifteen pounds for the felling of trees, and all with the sweetest handles I have ever beheld.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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The work was done by highly skilled craftsmen working with hammers and handsaws, adzes and handmade nails.
Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site 2010
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The work was done by highly skilled craftsmen working with hammers and handsaws, adzes and handmade nails.
Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site 2010
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An anvil, a bench vice, adzes, hand axes, and wrenches needed specialized skills.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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It has additional quotes by Boulestin and site director Andrea Zeeb-Lanz and interesting bits like this: In some cases human skullcaps were arranged to form a nest, on which were scattered potsherds, broken adzes, shell jewelry, and dog foot and jaw bones.
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Each horseman is to carry shield and spear, long-sword and short-sword, bow, quivers and arrows, and your carts are to contain implements of various kinds - axes and stone-cutting tools, augers, adzes, trenching-tools, iron spades and the rest of the implements which an army needs.
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Above them hang more tools: a collection of adzes, axes and hand saws.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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