Any impact cutting tool with the blade set at a right angle to the length of the handle As with hatchets and axes, adzes come in a range of sizes for use with one or two hands Unlike axes, adzes may have curved blades for gouging and are often easily removed from the handle to enable sharpening on a grindstone
A wood-working tool – used for hollowing out (boats etc) and for trimming wood – in which a flat, heavy blade is set at rightangles to the shaft Compare Axe
a sharp tool with the blade at a right angle to the handle, used to shape wood. or adz Hand tool for shaping wood. A handheld stone chipped to form a blade, it is one of the earliest tools, and was used widely in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. By Egyptian times, it had acquired a wooden haft (handle) with a copper or bronze blade set flat at the top of the haft to form a T. In this form but with a steel blade, it continued to be the prime hand tool for shaping and trimming wood; the carpenter stands on or astride a log or other piece of timber, swinging the adze like a pick, down and between the legs