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/ædz/ · noun
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood..
...if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
Use adze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adze means A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood..
Common synonyms include adz.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
...if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
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