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An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood.
[Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.]
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An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood.
[Middle English adese, from Old English adesa.]
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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.
The tool known as the adze (pronounced ădz) serves 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, clipping, chipping, and or cutting off a piece of wood, and walking backwards as they go, leaving a relatively smooth surface behind. However, in general usage, the adze can be used for other cutting operations, such as tree cutting.
The head of the adze is oriented to the shaft like a hoe, or plane, and not like an axe, whose cutting blade would be perpendicular to the blade of an adze.
In central Europe, adzes made by knapping
The adze is shown in Egypt from the Old Kingdom onward.[1] Originally the adze blades were made of stone, but already in the Predynastic Period copper adzes had all but replaced those made of flint.[2] 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 with the phonetic value of stp (vulg. setep), and from the 19th Dynasty onward "Setep" was used in the names of various pharaohs.
The ahnetjer, Manuel de Codage transliteration: aH-nTr, depicted as an adze-like instrument,[3] 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.[4][5]
Prehistoric Māori adzes from
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 American and Canadian Indian sculptors doing large pole work.
"Adze" is freqently mentioned by William F. Buckley as one of the most obscure words in the English language.
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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)
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