adze

Pronunciation: /ædz/

The English word “adze” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.

verb

To shape a material using an adze.

Etymology

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).

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