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# adze

«adze» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old cutting tool like an axe, but with its blade set…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an adze, adzes; also spelled adz in the US)

### meaning for a pupil

An adze is an old cutting tool like an axe, but with its blade set across the handle, used for shaping wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in history lessons (Stone Age tools, Māori and Pacific canoe makers, shipbuilders), and woodwork.

### examples

- The Stone Age people made an adze from stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#x1)
- Māori carvers used a toki, a kind of adze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#x2)
- The shipbuilder shaped the beam with an adze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#x3)
- An adze blade is turned sideways, unlike an axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#x4)
- The museum has a polished stone adze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#x5)
- He swung the adze to smooth the log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/#x6)

### note

Pronounced like «adds». US spelling «adz». Not the same as an axe: an axe's blade is in line with the handle; an adze's blade is across it, like a hoe.

### In the corpora

- ["dzvinOk" means the bell, and the "dz" at its start is one sound, like in "adze".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/17-marks-exercise-books-tests-and-holidays/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.