adze
/ædz/
adze noun: a cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
Noun
adze (plural adzes)
- A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- ...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.1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Verb
adze (third-person singular simple present adzes, present participle adzing, simple past and past participle adzed)
- To shape a material using an adze.
adze meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada
adze in Hindi
- adze; a carpenter's axe
- बसूला basūlā
adze in Tamil
- வாய்ச்சி
adze in Telugu
- cutting tool
- బాడిస bāḍisa
adze in Kannada
- ಕೈಬಾಚಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- adze in Sanskrit
- वाशी vā́śī
- adze in Assamese
- চাঁচ sãs
- adze in Tagalog
- daras, pandaras
- adze in Arabic
- قَدُوم qadūm
- adze in Malay
- beliung
- adze in Indonesian
- beliung
- adze in Persian
- تیشه tiše
- adze in Thai
- ขวานถากไม้, ผึ่ง pʉ̀ng
Forms of adze
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | adzes |
| alternative US | adz |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | adzes |
| present participle | adzing |
| past participle | adzed |
| past | adzed |
Origin of adze
From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).
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Phrases with adze
Words that rhyme with adze
Questions about adze
- What does adze mean?
- Adze means a cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
- What is adze in Hindi?
- Adze in Hindi is बसूला (basūlā). See Adze meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adze?
- Adze can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce adze?
- Adze is pronounced /ædz/.
- What is the plural of adze?
- The plural of adze is adzes.
Words near adze in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adze (page history and authors); बसूला (Hindi) (page history and authors); adze (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adze (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वाशी (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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