0 a tool like an axe with the blade at an angle of approximately 90° to the handle, used for cutting and shaping wood --
At such times he made what was in the nature of a spring for the door, explaining later that he had been to sharpen his adz.
This is a rather small adz.
These are fitted to a very old bone body, which when whole was not over 3 inches long, and was probably part of a little bone adz.
The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
The adz was in general use long before the introduction of iron.
Then he used the adz of his ax.
The saw and the hammer and the adz were for other hands now.
Her husband also was forbidden to work with a hammer or adz or to go seal-catching for some time after the mishap.
