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adze

  [adz]
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–noun, verb (used with object), adzed, adz⋅ing.
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adz

  [adz]
–noun
1. an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
–verb (used with object)
2. to dress or shape (wood) with an adz.
Also, adze.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME ad(e)se, OE adesa; *ad-es-, of obscure orig., appears to be formed like ax, and might by assoc. with the latter have lost *w-; if so, < Gmc *wad-, c. Lith vedegà adz
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n.  An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood.

[Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.]
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Word Origin & History

adze 
O.E. adesa "adze, hatchet," of unknown origin, perhaps somehow related to O.Fr. aisse, L. ascia.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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