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What is an adze, and what is it used for, please? Thank you.?
I am reading a book on archaeology (one of my favorite subjects!) and there are pictures of Bronze Age and Iron Age tools; one of which says 'early adze'. Is this a farming implement, a carpentry tool, or what? This particular item in the picture is made of copper, which is a soft metal, so it cannot be used for very heavy work, and it looks something like an airplane propeller - flattened on the ends, thicker in the middle, with a hole in the middle where a handle would fit. Nothing I have, from the dictionary on up, helps.
Adze
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AdzeThe tool known as the adze [pronounced adds] serves for smoothing rough-cut wood in hand woodworking. Generally, the user stands astride a board or log and swings the adze downwards towards their feet, chipping off a piece of wood, and walking backwards as they go, leaving a relatively smooth surface behind. However, in general usage, the adze can be used for other cutting operations.
The head of the adze is oriented to the haft like a hoe, or plane, and not like an axe, whose cutting blade would be perpendicular to the blade of an adze.
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