/adz/ , n.
1. an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.
v.t.
2. to dress or shape (wood) with an adz.
Also, adze .
[ bef. 900; ME ad ( e ) se, OE adesa; * ad-es-, of obscure orig., appears to be formed like AX, and might by assoc. with the latter have lost * w-; if so, wad-, c. Lith vedegà adz ]