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Adze vs Adoze - What's the difference?

adze | adoze |

As a noun adze

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

As a verb adze

is to shape a material using an adze.

As an adjective adoze is

dozing, napping, asleep.

As an adverb adoze is

dozing, napping, asleep.

adze

English

Alternative forms

* adz (US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
  • * 1719 , :
    • ...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 .

    See also

    * adze-eye hammer * axe * mattock

    External links

    * (wikipedia "adze")

    References

    Verb

    (adz)
  • To shape a material using an adze.

    • Anagrams

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    adoze

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Dozing]], [[nap, napping, asleep

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Dozing]], [[nap, napping, asleep
    • He lay adoze , rousing only when someone came too close.