adze

Significado (English)

Noun

A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.

Verb

To shape a material using an adze.

Synonyms

adz

chisel

adz

axe

🪓

grooving plane

hatchet

hew

stone axe

chip-axe

drawing knife

plane

scraper

spleen

trim

broad axe

ax

cut

drawknife

gouge

small hatchet

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ædz/

Etimoloxía (English)

Inherited from Middle English: adse

Inherited from Old English: adesa

In summary

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”)).