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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

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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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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Wood-shaping blade4 letters
02Wood-shaping tool4 letters

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