adze

English

Wikipedia

Some adze heads

Alternative forms

• adz

Etymology

From Old English adesa, of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ădz, IPA: /ædz/, X-SAMPA: /{dz/
• Rhymes: -ædz

Noun

adze (plural adzes)

1. A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     ...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.

Translations

cutting tool

• Armenian: ուրագ (hy) (urag)
• Bulgarian: тесла (bg) (tésla) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錛子 (cmn), 锛子 (cmn) (bēnzi)

• Crimean Tatar: teslice
• Czech: tesla (cs) f, skoble (cs) f, teslice (cs) f
• Dutch: dissel (nl)
• Esperanto: adzo (eo)
• Finnish: kuokkakirves (fi), kourukirves (fi), telso (fi)
• French: herminette (fr) f
• German: Queraxt (de) f, Dechsel (de) f
• Greek: σκεπάρνι (el) (skepárni) n
• Hungarian: bárd (hu), ácsbárd (hu)
• Irish: tál (ga) m
• Japanese: 釿 (ja) (ちょうな, chōna)

• Korean: 까뀌 (ko) (kkakkwi)
• Macedonian: тесла (mk) (tésla) f
• Old Irish: tál m
• Persian: تیشه (fa) (tiše)
• Polish: topór ciesielski (pl) m, ciesak (pl) m
• Portuguese: enxó (pt) m
• Romanian: teslă (ro) f
• Russian: тесло (ru) (tesló) n, дексель (ru) (dékselʹ) m (used in railway business)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брадва (sh) f, брадвица (sh) f, тесла (sh) f, теслица (sh) f

  Roman: bradva (sh) f, bradvica (sh) f, tesla (sh) f, teslica (sh) f

• Spanish: azuela (es) f
• Swedish: däxel (sv) c, skarvyxa (sv) c

See also

• axe

Verb

adze (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)

1. To shape a material using an adze.

Translations

to shape material with an adze

• Finnish: veistää (fi) kuokkakirveellä (fi)
• Russian: тесать (ru) (tesátʼ)

• Swedish: tillyxa (sv)

Anagrams

• daze