adze

Etymology

From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa, reputed to be from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)). The older Old English forms are Old English adosa (“adze”) and Old English adosan (“to adze”).

noun

1. 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

1. To shape a material using an adze.