|
|
| (Click to enlarge) |
| adz |
| (© School Division, Houghton Mifflin Company) |
An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood.
[Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.]
Dictionary:
adz or adze (ădz) ![]() |
|
|
| (Click to enlarge) |
| adz |
| (© School Division, Houghton Mifflin Company) |
[Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.]
| 5min Related Video: adz |
| Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: adze |
For more information on adze, visit Britannica.com.
| Architecture: adze |
| Archaeology Dictionary: adze |
A woodworking tool which has its working edge perpendicular to the long axis of the haft. It therefore contrasts with an axe, the working edge of which is parallel with the plane of the haft. Adzes are generally used for trimming and shaping timbers, and for hollowing out large cavities such as in making a dug-out canoe.
| Columbia Encyclopedia: adze |
| Wikipedia: Adze |
An adze or adz (pronounced /ædz/) is a tool used for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking. Generally, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the adze downwards towards their feet, chipping off pieces of wood, moving backwards as they go and leaving a relatively smooth surface behind. Adzes are most often used for squaring up logs, or for hollowing out timber.
The adze is also a tool of choice for building wreckers, laborers who dismantle old buildings by hand for salvage. The single tool can serve all the needs of deconstruction with proper use.[1]
The blade of an adze is set at right angles to the tool's shaft (like a hoe or plane), unlike the blade of an axe which is set in line with the shaft. A very similar tool used for digging in hard ground is called a mattock.
Contents |
In central Europe, adzes made by knapping flint are known from the late Mesolithic onwards ("Scheibenbeile"). Polished adzes and axes made of ground stone, like amphibolite, basalt or Jadeite are typical for the Neolithic period. Shoe-last adzes or celts, named for their typical shape, are found in the Linearbandkeramic and Rössen cultures of the early Neolithic. Adzes were also made and used by prehistoric southeast Asian cultures, especially in the Mekong River basin.
The adze is shown in ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom onward.[2] Originally the adze blades were made of stone, but already in the Predynastic Period copper adzes had all but replaced those made of flint.[3] While stone blades were fastened to the wooden handle by tying, metal blades had sockets into which the handle was fitted. Examples of Egyptian adzes can be found in museums and on the Petrie Museum website.
A depiction of an adze was also used as a hieroglyph, representing the consonants stp, "chosen", and used as: ...Pharaoh XX, chosen of God/Goddess YY...
The ahnetjer, Manuel de Codage transliteration: aH-nTr, depicted as an adze-like instrument,[4] was used in the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, intended to convey power over their senses to statues and mummies. It was apparently the foreleg of a freshly sacrificed bull or cow with which the mouth was touched.[5][6]
Prehistoric Māori adzes from New Zealand, used for wood carving, were made from nephrite, also known as jade. At the same time on Henderson Island, a small coral island in eastern Polynesia lacking any rock other than limestone, natives may have fashioned giant clamshells into adzes.
American Northwest coast natives traditionally used adzes for both functional construction (from bowls to canoes) and art (from masks to totem poles). Northwest coast adzes take two forms, hafted and D-handle. The hafted form is similar in form to a European adze with the haft constructed from a natural crooked branch which approximately forms a 60% angle. The thin end is used as the handle and the thick end is flattened and notched such that an adze iron can be lashed to it. Modern hafts are sometimes constructed from a sawed blank with a dowel added for strength at the crook. The second form is the D-handle adze which is basically an adze iron with a directly-attached handle. The D-handle therefore provides no mechanical leverage. Northwest coast adzes are often classified by size and iron shape vs. role. As with European adzes, iron shapes include straight, gutter and lipped. Where larger Northwest adzes are similar in size to their European counterparts, the smaller sizes are typically much lighter such that they can be used for the detailed smoothing, shaping and surface texturing required for figure carving. Final surfacing is sometimes performed with a crooked knife.
Modern adzes are made from steel with wooden handles, and some people still use them extensively: occasionally those in semi-industrial areas, but particularly 'revivalists' such as those at the Colonial Williamsburg cultural center in Virginia, USA. However, the traditional adze has largely been replaced by the sawmill and the powered-plane, at least in industrialized cultures. It remains in use for some specialist crafts, for example by coopers. Adzes are also in current use by artists such as Northwest Coast American and Canadian Indian sculptors doing pole work, masks and bowls.
"Adze" was frequently mentioned by William F. Buckley as one of the most obscure words in the English language.
One of the most common tools used in the fire service today is the Halligan bar. This is a multipurpose pry-bar used most commonly in forcible entry of a structure. One end of the Halligan bar is called the adze end. It has an adze along with a 4-inch spike on one end and the other end has a pry fork.
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
| Translations: Adze |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - skarøkse, tværøkse
Français (French)
n. - herminette, doloire
v. tr. - couper/sculpter le bois avec une herminette
Deutsch (German)
n. - Dechsel
v. - mit dem Beil fällen/bearbeiten
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σκεπάρνι
v. - κόβω με σκεπάρνι
Italiano (Italian)
ascia, tagliare con l'ascia
Português (Portuguese)
n. - enxó (f)
v. - trabalhar com enxó
Русский (Russian)
тесло (техн.)
Español (Spanish)
n. - azuela
v. tr. - azolar, desbastar con azuela
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skarvyxa
v. - yxa till
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
扁斧
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 扁斧
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - קרדום (להקצעת עץ)
If you are unable to view some languages clearly, click here.
To select your translation preferences click here.
| helve | |
| mattock (design engineering) | |
| adz |
| What is adzes? Read answer... | |
| What is an adze? Read answer... | |
| Who uses an adze? Read answer... |
| Full form of adz's? | |
| Ano ang ibig sabihin ng adze? | |
| Where are the Static timing marks on Golf 1997 ADZ Engine? |
Copyrights:
![]() | Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more | |
![]() | Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. © 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. All rights reserved. Read more | |
![]() | Architecture. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Read more | |
![]() | Archaeology Dictionary. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Copyright © 2002, 2003 by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Read more | |
![]() | Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/. Read more | |
![]() | Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Adze". Read more | |
![]() | Translations. Copyright © 2007, WizCom Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Read more |
Mentioned in