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adze

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"Wood-shaping blade"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ædz/Part of speech nounSorted adezStarts with AEnds with E2 clues
1A2D3Z4E

Definitions

  1. an edge tool used to cut and shape wood

Word origin

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).

Used in a sentence

  • ...if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.

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02Wood-shaping tool4 letters

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