adz

US: /ædz/ ,(adz)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

adz or adze/ædz/   n. 

1. Building [countable] a tool like an ax for cutting timber, with a curved blade mounted at a right angle to the handle.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

adz  (adz), n. 

1. Building an axlike tool, for dressing timbers roughly, with a curved, chisellike steel head mounted at a right angle to the wooden handle.

v.t. 

2. Building to dress or shape (wood) with an adz.

Also, adze. 

• Gmc *wad-, cognate with Lithuanian vedegà adz
• bef. 900; Middle English ad(e)se, Old English adesa; *ad-es-, of obscure origin, originally, appears to be formed like ax, and might by association with the latter have lost *w-; if so,