adz
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See also: ADZ
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ædz
Noun
[edit]adz (plural adzes)
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of adze
- March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine[1], page 267:
- The adz is used in reducing the camphor tree to chips, which can be placed into retorts for the distillation process (see illustration on the next page).
Verb
[edit]adz (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)