0 a tool like an axe with the blade at an angle of approximately 90° to the handle, used for cutting and shaping wood
But chief among them, and still bearing the adz tool marks of the workers who squared it off, is a massive king post truss.
The logs were squared up with the broad ax and foot adz and notched together.
Up comes a sturdy figure with an air of command, an officer's hat on his head, a ship-carpenter's adz in his hand.
Inside of ten minutes he was chuckling over the awkward efforts of one scout to handle an adz and showing him the proper method.
Let your meal be so hard trod in your cask that you shall need an adz or hatchet to work it out with.
Her husband also was forbidden to work with a hammer or adz or to go seal-catching for some time after the mishap.
The saw and the hammer and the adz were for other hands now.
Then he used the adz of his ax.
