noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If an adze was used, smaller trees might have been more practical so that one finished square might be one round long.
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In exchange they eagerly proffered jade adze blades as well as weapons and articles of clothing.
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The Maori obtained their nephrite adze blades by cutting grooves from either face of a boulder, using abrasives and water.
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We came to a stream and crossed it on a tree trunk some one had flattened with an adze .
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When a new site is chosen for cultivation, the undergrowth is removed, and later the trees, with an adze .