adze

• adz (US)

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”)).^[1]

• enPR: ădz, IPA^(key): /ædz/

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• Rhymes: -ædz
• Homophones: adds, ads

adze (plural adzes)

1. A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     ...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.

• axe
• mattock

• adze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

adze (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)

1. To shape a material using an adze.

• daze, deza

adze (plural adze) (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. Alternative form of âjo (“age”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche

• ajdze (Łowicz)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “univerbation of a gdzie?”)

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.d͡zɛ/

adze

1. (Near Masovian, Płock Governorate) jere; look

   Near-synonyms: oto, patrz

• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “adze”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 691