Adzes

The stone which makes the blade of their adzes is a kind of basaltes, of ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

And adzes again, a myriad of them, beautiful ones, from an ounce in weight for the finer carving of idols to fifteen pounds for the felling of trees, and all with the sweetest handles I have ever beheld. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I haven't seen a pearl-shell fish-hook in years, but I swear that Kalakaua accumulated ten thousand of them, to say nothing of human jaw-bone fish-hooks, and feather cloaks, and capes and helmets, and stone adzes, and poi-pounders of phallic design. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taboo poi bowls and finger bowls, left-handed adzes of the canoe gods, lava-cup lamps, stone mortars and pestles and poi-pounders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The work was done by highly skilled craftsmen working with hammers and handsaws, adzes and handmade nails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An anvil, a bench vice, adzes, hand axes, and wrenches needed specialized skills. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It has additional quotes by Boulestin and site director Andrea Zeeb-Lanz and interesting bits like this: In some cases human skullcaps were arranged to form a nest, on which were scattered potsherds, broken adzes, shell jewelry, and dog foot and jaw bones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each horseman is to carry shield and spear, long-sword and short-sword, bow, quivers and arrows, and your carts are to contain implements of various kinds - axes and stone-cutting tools, augers, adzes, trenching-tools, iron spades and the rest of the implements which an army needs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Above them hang more tools: a collection of adzes, axes and hand saws. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Mulga wood is easily worked when green, but seasons into unsplittable toughness, so is by far the most important material for making implements: spear blades, boomerangs, shields, digging sticks, adzes, fighting clubs, spears and sacred tjuringas. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The Art of Fine Tools (Taunton. $37) photographs clapboard planes and hand adzes, British spokeshaves and Japanese ryoba saws as lavishly and seductively as a display of tarts in Martha Stewart Living. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also on view: a giant, six-metre-wide string-art depiction of a bat; Pant Pollen, a display of catnip balls that can be attached via Velcro to the wearer's pant leg (to attract cats); a smoking cannon with a pile of blackened skulls and assorted pirate accoutrements; and a menacing inventory of weathered wood-handled farming implements (adzes, axes, shovels and pitchforks evoking rioting peasantry - class warfare is another of their motifs). ❋ Christopher (2007)

As she had rocked along the thoroughfare, she had heard the scrape of carpenters 'adzes and had smelled wood shavings, as if they passed through a carpentry district. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Kiaora, this is awesome information... things we have known and been told by our ancestors are being proven more and more these days, the polynesian chickens in south america, the marquesan adzes in Hawaii, the Kumara, the mere pounamu from Aotearoa in a tahitian swamp, the evidence is mounting... : thanks ❋ Unknown (2005)

Still, he'd been able to forge some of his cooper's tools, and he had two adzes, a chiv, three hollowing knives, and his planer. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)

The canoes of these inland sailors are truly primitive craft: they are hollowed out of the trunks of single trees by means of iron adzes; and if the tree has a bend, so has the canoe. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I wish I had a friend like Adz, [what a legend]. Did you hear [how cool] it was [hanging out] with Adz? ❋ Hummusandkhubz (2019)

He [photoshopped] that shot. He's such an adz. This guy is [sending me] [spam]. He must be adz. This adz-fucking thing is so fucking adz. ❋ Martin M. (2007)

Adz [still] [has it] ([adam] still has it) ❋ Marokko (2022)

The wood worker used his [adze] [diligently] to make a wooden [sculpture]. ❋ B-rizzle (2018)

[Caint] [yu] adze I [axe] for tu adze. ❋ Harry Flashman (2003)

[Adam] [Hollingsworth] ❋ Ross Brazier (2004)

" Have you heard that new [Young Adz] and [Lil Baby] [tune], that shit fire dawg" ❋ Mrboomboombean (2020)

Ard Adz ❋ Ardfrancesca (2012)

That [rapper] is such an [ard adz]. ❋ Pushing P (2022)

Guy #1:"Yo, have u heard that new [Adz 100] shit" Guy #2:"Yes, that shit is [the dope]!" Guy #3:"Homie, [adz 100] is shit, he's worth less than 50 cent! 10.0 [cents]! ❋ Hip Hop Thugsta (2006)