0 a tool like an axe with the blade at an angle of approximately 90° to the handle, used for cutting and shaping wood
I also gave to each of them a knife, a small adze, some nails, beads, and a looking-glass.
The sides are smoothed with adzes of the same materials and construction, but of a smaller size.
Then the carpenters landed, who had great axes in their hands, and planes and adzes hung at their sides.
To do this work the only tools the carpenter and his assistants had were two adzes and two small tomahawks.
We dug a hole in the snow about three feet deep with the adze and put the Primus into it.
We put our sticks and the adze on the snow, sat down on them as close to one another as possible, and put our arms round each other.
For instance, each of them has been instructed that he must buy an adze, of which very few are used.
While those people are in hospital, it is necessary for them to undertake such therapeutic work and to be trained to use a lathe, an adze or a hammer.
