adze

See also: Adze and adže

English

Some adze heads

Alternative forms

• adz (US)

Etymology

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa, reputed to be from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)). The older Old English forms are Old English adosa (“adze”) and Old English adosan (“to adze”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ădz, IPA^(key): /ædz/

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• Rhymes: -ædz
• Homophones: adds, ads

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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)
• Azerbaijani: kərki
• Belarusian: цясла́ f (cjaslá)
• Bulgarian: тесла́ (bg) f (teslá)
• Catalan: aixa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錛子／锛子 (zh) (bēnzi)

• Crimean Tatar: teslice
• Czech: tesla (cs) f, skoble f, teslice (cs) f
• Dutch: dissel (nl) m
• Esperanto: adzo
• Finnish: koverokirves (fi), talso (fi), telso (fi), kourukirves
• French: herminette (fr) f
• Galician: aixola (gl) f
• Georgian: სათლელი (satleli)
• German: Queraxt f, Dechsel f
• Greek: σκεπάρνι (el) n (skepárni)

  Ancient: σκέπαρνον n (sképarnon)

• Hebrew: מַעֲצָד‎ (he) m (ma'atsád)
• Hungarian: bárd (hu), ácsbárd (hu)
• Irish: tál m
• Japanese: 釿 (ja) (ちょうな, chōna)
• Korean: 까뀌 (kkakkwi)
• Macedonian: те́сла f (tésla), бра́два f (brádva)
• Mongolian: ооль (mn) (oolʹ)
• Old Irish: tál m
• Ottoman Turkish: فاس‎ (fas)
• Persian: تیشه‎ (fa) (tiše)
• Polish: topór ciesielski m, ciesak (pl) m, cieślica (pl) f, cioska f, ciosła (pl) f
• Portuguese: enxó (pt) m
• Romanian: teslă (ro) f
• Russian: тесло́ (ru) n (tesló), де́ксель m (dékselʹ) (used in railway business)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бра̏два f, брадвица f, те̏сла f, теслица f

  Roman: brȁdva (sh) f, bradvica f, tȅsla (sh) f, teslica f

• Spanish: azuela (es) f
• Swedish: däxel (sv) c, skarvyxa (sv) c
• Tagalog: daras, pandaras
• Turkish: keser (tr), kerki (tr) (colloquial)
• Ukrainian: тесло́ n (tesló)
• Welsh: neddyf f
• White Hmong: piab

See also

• adze-eye hammer
• adze hoe
• axe
• mattock

Further reading

• adze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• Azerbaijani: yonmaq (az)
• Finnish: veistää koverokirveellä
• Georgian: გათლა (gatla)
• Russian: теса́ть (ru) (tesátʹ)
• Swedish: tillyxa (sv)

Anagrams

• daze, deza