adze

adze

See also: Adze and adže

English

Some adze heads

Alternative forms

• adz (US)

Etymology

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa, from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).[1]

Pronunciation

• enPR: ădz, IPA^(key): /ædz/

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• Rhymes: -ædz
• Homophones: adds, ads

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Noun

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.

Translations

cutting tool

Armenian: ուրագ (hy) (urag) Azerbaijani: kərki Belarusian: цясла́ f (cjaslá) Bulgarian: тесла́ (bg) f (teslá) Catalan: aixa (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 錛子／锛子 (zh) (bēnzi) Crimean Tatar: teslice Czech: tesla (cs) f, skoble f, teslice (cs) f Dutch: dissel (nl) m Esperanto: adzo Finnish: koverokirves (fi), talso (fi), telso (fi), kourukirves French: herminette (fr) f Galician: aixola (gl) f Georgian: სათლელი (satleli) German: Queraxt f, Dechsel f Greek: σκεπάρνι (el) n (skepárni) Ancient: σκέπαρνον n (sképarnon) Hebrew: מַעֲצָד‎ (he) m (ma'atsád) Hungarian: bárd (hu), ácsbárd (hu) Irish: tál m Japanese: 釿 (ja) (ちょうな, chōna) Korean: 까뀌 (kkakkwi) Macedonian: те́сла f (tésla), бра́два f (brádva) Mongolian: ооль (mn) (oolʹ) Old Irish: tál m Persian: تیشه‎ (fa) (tiše) Polish: topór ciesielski m, ciesak (pl) m, cieślica (pl) f, cioska f, ciosła (pl) f Portuguese: enxó (pt) m Romanian: teslă (ro) f Russian: тесло́ (ru) n (tesló), де́ксель m (dékselʹ) (used in railway business) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бра̏два f, брадвица f, те̏сла f, теслица f Roman: brȁdva (sh) f, bradvica f, tȅsla (sh) f, teslica f Spanish: azuela (es) f Swedish: däxel (sv) c, skarvyxa (sv) c Tagalog: daras, pandaras Turkish: keser (tr), kerki (tr) (colloquial) Ukrainian: тесло́ n (tesló) Welsh: neddyf f White Hmong: piab

See also

• adze-eye hammer
• adze hoe
• axe
• mattock

References

1. Guus Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 2.

Further reading

• adze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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

1. To shape a material using an adze.

Translations

to shape material with an adze

Azerbaijani: yonmaq (az) Finnish: veistää koverokirveellä Georgian: გათლა (gatla) Russian: теса́ть (ru) (tesátʹ) Swedish: tillyxa (sv)

Anagrams

• daze, deza