Adde vs Adze - What's the difference?
adde | adze |
A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
* 1719 , :
To shape a material using an adze.
As a proper noun adde
is a hypocoristic form of the male given name adolf.As a noun adze is
father.adze
English
Alternative forms
* adz (US)Noun
(en noun)- ...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 .