| 单词 | adze |
| 例句 | “I have only a saw, hammer, chisel, and adze, but we are managing alright,” he reported in his diary. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It’s a place where finely-crafted cedar boxes holding eagle and condor feathers are hollowed out with an adze, and brothers braid each others’ hair. Traditions Revived at a Tribal Culture Camp 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Axes created a more symmetrical, oval fracture than the adze, for example. Watch researchers crack skulls for science 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood. Commentary: A stolen, horribly damaged De Kooning painting gets the Getty conservation treatment 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Holm showed Jackson, using his own adze that he had made from yew wood, with a thin handle that flexed. Bill Holm, a giant of Native Northwest Coast art, dies at 95 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z They’ve also found ample evidence of prehistoric carpentry: stone adzes, other woodworking tools, and even part of a pine log smoothed with an adze. This 11,000-year-old statue unearthed in Siberia may reveal ancient views of taboos and demons 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Boxley uses a handcrafted adze, designed with the aid of his grandfather. A master carver creates a totem pole to honor his sister-in-law 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z As for the ancient Spanish victim, the scientists may have conclusively solved one mystery about his death: He appears to have been killed by an adze. Watch researchers crack skulls for science 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The two men walked downhill to where the adze, a cutting tool with an arched blade, was found. Archaeologists and Metal Detectorists Find Common Ground 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Like blast shields, the mounds blocked the view; their shapes, which can be seen in whole only from the air, form a coded alphabet of charm stone, dog bone, cross, and adze. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The carver then shaped the pole’s face with knives and an adze. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The thick knocking of his adze sounds like a freakishly powerful pileated woodpecker doing its work on a rotting tree in a quiet forest. A master carver creates a totem pole to honor his sister-in-law 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Long and large have been the canoes hewn from the massive tree trunks by the aid of the kohi-pohaku, the cutting stone, or adze, of ancient Hawaii. Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian 2012-03-21T02:00:33.043Z “The adze, the point, brass scrap — to me, it’s highly suggestive of one of those villages,” said Dr. McBride, listing other artifacts Mr. Wille had found in the area, especially an iron adze. Archaeologists and Metal Detectorists Find Common Ground 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Can you imagine the little handful of officers, driven aft away from the boats while the ship settled under them, standing still to be cut down with adze and axe? For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z You have to see a totem pole up close to appreciate the contrast between its thousands of tiny adze marks and its monolithic scale. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z They have never taken kindly to an English saw, because it is against their instinct to exert force in pushing, and their own tool, the adze, delivers its blow towards them. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Neither the weight of the tool nor the sharpness of the metal will admit of their being handled either as adze or axe, with any degree of success. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z The German carpenters, as we see, are reducing a great slab of wood into shape by the saw and the adze. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z So every morning now a party went to the woods, with axe and adze, to fell and trim the pine-trees. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z “You can still see the adze marks!” he kept saying. The Movie Star and the Missing Totem Pole 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The blade was curved, like a carpenter's adze, and at its head was a short pick. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Thick slabs were sawn off the spars, after which the carpenter, and a couple of men who could handle axe and adze, set to work to fashion them into topsail-yards. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The tool is a small one-handed adze with a handle like a hammer. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The main figure shows the Raven in human form holding a head with a projecting blade-like tongue, which is known as Tsu-hootar "jade adze." The Whale House of the Chilkat 2011-05-23T02:00:09.800Z The wainscoting of carved walnut, five feet high, was surmounted by a shelf holding a miscellaneous collection of whips, pipes, geological specimens, flints from Indian mounds, a hematite hatchet, a copper maul, a jade adze. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Since that time a great number of patterns have been tried, including shovel, trowel and adze types. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The chief tool used was the adze, made of stone or shell. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z When it was at last removed, Bill took his wooden adze that he had hardened in the fire, and began to scrape the rotten wood from the inner shell of the canoe. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z The main figure with head at the top represents the Raven, holding the head of Tsu-hootar, or "jade adze," and standing upon the head of a fish. The Whale House of the Chilkat 2011-05-23T02:00:09.800Z Their axes are something like our adze, and they use them in the same manner as we employ that instrument. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z The carpenter dropped his adze, caught up his measuring rule, and advanced towards me. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z He who guides it is never without his adze with which to cut the roots which he finds as the plow passes. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 2011-02-26T03:00:46.860Z The forest glades were filled with the shrieking of steam saws, the panting of donkey-engines, and the thudding blows of axe and adze. Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout 2011-02-07T03:00:22.570Z Going back from the shore he found in a deserted camp a piece of an old cedarbark mat, an old woven spruce root hat, an eagle skin, and a jade adze "tsu-hootar." The Whale House of the Chilkat 2011-05-23T02:00:09.800Z As they had gotten possession of an adze and two muskets, he found it necessary to exert himself with peculiar vigour, in order to oblige them to make a restitution. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z Here they were at last, however, and if I had not put some restraint upon my zealous officer of the adze and chisel, I believe he would have converted the Alabama into a lumberman. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z These were carefully cleaned and considered of such great beauty that they were left exposed as far as possible, more especially those which showed the sign of the adze. Remodeled Farmhouses Their chief implement was an adze made of a black or clay-coloured volcanic stone and polished by constant friction with pumice-stone in water. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II "Better take the heavy hammer and an adze," said Tom. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure Building Tools.—The adze described above was used for dressing blocks of limestone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" When we appreciate the labour and pains taken in excavating a large canoe, with only fire and the stone adze, we can see that these people were by no means idle. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The dressing is worked with an adze of eight teeth to the inch, used in a vertical direction and to a width of 2 to 4 in. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" He lifted the sky into its present position and smoothed its arched surface with his stone adze. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina One Saturday afternoon the busy sound of the hammer and of the adze was heard on the green hill-top which served the good folks of Nordstetten as their public gathering-place in the open air. Black Forest Village Stories Limestone in the Great Pyramid, as elsewhere, was dressed by chopping it with an adze, a tool used from prehistoric to Roman times for all soft stones and wood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The beams and planks were fashioned with an adze, and the evenness of the workmanship in hewing them is marvelous. The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast In the castles built by the Crusaders, the adze has been worked in a diagonal direction instead of vertically. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" But it was otherwise as concerned work at the bench with the adze or the mallet. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. It took but half a day’s work to make this cider press, and the only tools used in its construction were an ax, a mattock in lieu of adze, an auger, and a jackknife. Our Southern Highlanders Greatly confused, Master Martin replied, that it was after all better that he had not been killed; of the little bit of a cut with the adze he had made no account. Weird Tales, Vol. II. The more common and necessary articles of furniture such as bedsteads, tables, benches, etc., were probably manufactured on the premises by means of the carpenter’s axe, adze, hammer and saw. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 See here; first split the log fair in the middle; then hollow the flat side with the adze.' Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement A short time ago he hurt himself dangerously with an adze, during the building of a big cask. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The implements are all of stone, or bone—the celt, the arrow, the spear-head, the adze, and the mallet. The Ethnology of the British Islands As soon as Conrad observed her he stood as if turned to a pillar of stone, the adze suspended in the air. Weird Tales, Vol. II. In the cathedral there is also preserved a large cross of mahogany, rough and uneven, as though hewn with an adze out of a log, and then left in the rough. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose The Yankee took the adze from his hand before he could speak, and set about hollowing troughs very rapidly. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Yes, I went over to borrow their adze. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Carpenter, lay down your adze and sound the well.' The Pirate, and The Three Cutters Many and strange were the arts which I had to try to practise, such as handling the adze, the mysteries of tenon and mortise, and other feats of skill. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals The adze is so called from its curved shape. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The bliong can be fixed in the handle at any angle, and is therefore used as an axe or adze. Children of Borneo For three months he had been working on a canoe, shaping it with fire and adze from a poplar log, and now, after infinite difficulty, the task approached completion. The Doomsman It is in the shape of a small adze, but according to the way it is fitted into the handle it can be used either as an axe or adze. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo Before the war, the dock-yards of Nantucket were ringing with the busy sound of adze and hammer, rope-walks covered the island, and two hundred keels sailed yearly in quest of spermaceti. The Critical Period of American History In the use of the adze they were particularly proficient, and able to plane a section of wood to within a hairbreadth of thickness by the use of this alone. The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Edge tools are the firmer chisel, the mortise chisel, the socket chisel, the gouge, the hatchet, the adze, the drawing knife. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 These latter were of the most primitive construction, nothing more than puncheons smoothed down with the adze and supported by wooden trestles. The Doomsman The ends are nearly 2 in. thick, and next the wall are shaped roughly with an adze. The Care of Books Calypso aids him in every way, she even supplies him with tools, the axe, the adze, the augur, which imply a more advanced state of civilization than has hitherto appeared in the Dark Island. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Chipping it with an adze, and boring it with an augur, to ascertain its quality. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Aaron held gripped in both hands an adze. All the Brothers Were Valiant The hewn gates had opened when he floated out, and here were the gates looking non-understandably new, and with the adze marks still on the yellow timber. The Rapids He had already given Tom a tomahawk and an adze with which to make some oars and a mast. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Look every night that your wines don’t ferment or leak Always carry a gimlet, adze, and linen cloths; and wash the heads of the pipes with cold water. Early English Meals and Manners To smooth and cut off with an adze the superfluous wood.—To dubb a vessel bright, is to remove the outer surface of the plank completely with an adze. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. He took the adze from Aaron, the cleaver from the other; and he turned and hurled them behind him, over the rail. All the Brothers Were Valiant This showed the natives that the English were in earnest, and the musket was returned; but an adze had also been carried off, and it was insisted that this also should be brought back. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries "I may not be as big as you," he said, "but if I was the same shape, I'd go to a bush carpenter, and get him to trim me down with an adze." Tom Gerrard With his adze he shaped both sides, using the forms he had previously prepared. The Rival Crusoes Spotting to examine planks with the adze is also dubbing. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Indeed, it was admitted on all hands that I was abler with the adze than the ladle and spoiled fewer boards than broths. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver A rough puncheon floor, hewed flat with an axe or adze, was truly a luxury. Home Life in Colonial Days One of them, described as an "adze," was exhibited by Captain Duff, who wrote that there was no stone like it in its neighborhood. The Book of the Damned Lord Reginald found that as yet there was comparatively little for him to do, as, from want of experience, he could not for some time use either the adze or the axe. The Rival Crusoes Carpenter, lay down your adze and sound the well.” The Pirate It is of little consequence on which my adze is first employed. The King's Own Then as daylight came again there was the busy sound of the saw, chipping of the adze, the creak of auger, and the loud echoing rap of the mallet, as some tree-nail was driven home. The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise He fetched the pitch kettle from the little fire a fisherman had been feeding with chips of wreck-wood and adze cuttings from a lugger on the stacks. The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap He aren’t much account unless it’s hammers and spikes, or a job at caulking or using his adze.” Fitz the Filibuster Thus Dr. Munro mentions the case of a man who, while digging a drain in his garden in Scotland, found an adze of jade and a pre-historic urn. The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore The millpeck is a little tool like a double adze, or perhaps rather like two chisels set in the head of a mallet. Round About a Great Estate He made what is called an adze-handled hammer, the head being attached to the handle after the manner of an adze. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money In his younger days Davy Glinds had been a ship carpenter, and was skilled in the use of the broadaxe and the adze. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's He’s known me two years and a narf, which means ever since he come on his first voyage, when I teached him how to handle an adze without cutting off his pretty little toes. Fitz the Filibuster Dr. Munro declares, with another expert, that the jade adze is “a modern Australian implement,” which is the more amazing as I am not aware that the Australians possess any jade. The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore He took the head from one of the barrels, and with an adze cut out a small piece, then handing me the specimen, replied: 'Now hole thet up ter th' sun. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy At Page 222 Knossos a carefully hewn tomb held, along with the body of the dead artificer, specimens of the tools of his trade—a bronze saw, adze, and chisel. The Sea-Kings of Crete Just beyond the city there was a noisy altercation in the road for the possession apparently of a blunt adze. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma A little warming, kindly light at length began to blaze their trail along, as if some gentle predecessor, with a golden adze, had chipped the funereal trees and made them smile a welcome. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times "I can manage all that, sir, if I may take an axe or two and an adze from the shop here." Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 They were tailed men from all accounts, the tail of the men being like a dagger, and that of the women like an adze of the kind used by Man�bos. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Nearly all are shaped like the iron axe or adze of Urúa, in Central Africa, a long narrow blade with rounded top and wedge-shaped edge. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Lehuanui stood over him, adze in hand, and called, “O King, where are my children?” Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends In one, which is also used for ordinary adze work, the haft is cut from a natural branch, with the angle of the head part set obliquely. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea "Where's your timber, Sam?" asked Tom, bringing in the axes and adze out of the tent. Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 Well, it is just the same; all done with the adze; but it is stout work they put into it, I can tell you. Letters from Egypt The people mount it in two ways, either as an axe in line with, or as an adze at a right angle to, the helve. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The father procured a stone adze and went to the King’s sleeping-house, the servant still following. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends The cutting of the hair of both men and women is effected with sharp pieces of stone of the sort used for making adze blades, or with sharp pieces of bamboo or shell. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea Then began the work of hewing it into shape, and this admitted of four boys working at once, two with the axes, one with the adze and one with the hatchet. Captain Sam The Boy Scouts of 1814 A sharp adze stuck up with a shining edge that gleamed dangerously down there like a wicked smile. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle He cried, his flame addressing— "If I 'adze such a love as yours, I'd ask no other blessing!" Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside The maker of a plane lends this plane to another man, who is thus enabled to finish off in a week four more planks than he could have done had he used an adze. A Critical Examination of Socialism As soon as he saw them, he ran to a lofty tree, and climbed to its very top, taking only his adze with him, and there awaited his fate. The Women of the Arabs Schmitz had a fierce, red moustache, that looked as if it had been trimmed on a block with an adze. The Missing Link The adze will come into good use in trimming off the wood on these curves. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Then I sheared off all the light wood on the growing olive tree, and I rough-hewed the trunk with the adze, and I made the tree into a bed post. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy The tool used for this purpose is the rembe, a kind of adze. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants For the same reason they frequently called iron by the name of toe, which, in their language, signifies a hatchet, or rather a kind of adze. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 It was hollowed out from the trunk of a cotton-tree, he using "his own hands and adze" in the work, enduring much hardship, and "lying abroad in the woods many nights together." Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality This may be done with an axe and adze, and when performed, the bottom curves should be made by chopping away the wood in the curves shown in the lower outline of our illustration. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making A few of many tools unearthed at Jamestown which were used for timbering: felling axes, a hewing axe, adze, hatchet, wedge, and saw fragment. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America "That must have been the lover!" he whispered over to the other, as he set to work with his adze upon the pencilled plank. The Pilot and his Wife I was surprised and rather mortified to find that he set so little value on this as to let me have it, at the first word, for a small adze. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship You cannot so easily overcome them with sharp retort as with adze and yardstick. Around The Tea-Table The tools most useful for this purpose are the adze and axe, and sometimes the sledge and chisel. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Iron was reserved for weapons of war, and tools, in use for hard substances, such as sculptors' and masons' chisels, axe and adze heads, knife-blades, and saws. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Within, there were seats with kneeling-planks, hewed out of hard wood and still bearing the marks of the adze. White Shadows in the South Seas They had not been an hour on shore before one man had an axe stolen from him and another an adze. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship Even now their only tools are a felling-axe, a hatchet, and a small adze; and there they sit, chop, chop, chopping, for three, six, or nine months it may be, until the house is finished. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before A sharp axe, an adze, a shaving knife, a round edged adze, and a small auger, are principally necessary; and a cross-cut saw, broad-axe, sledge, and large sized chisel, will also be found useful. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making With adze, and saw, and chisel, and ax, and in a carpenter-shop showing himself brother with the tradesmen. New Tabernacle Sermons Amongst the tools, one resembling our adze is in the most common use; and it is remarkable that the handles of these implements are often composed of human bones. John Rutherford, the White Chief Tepa was applied to, who got the axe restored but the adze was not recovered. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship The one end is cut like a small-toothed comb, and the other is fastened to a piece of cane, and looks like a little serrated adze. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before The mason offers the same adoration and sacrifice to his trowel, rule, and other instruments The carpenter adores his hatchet, adze, and plane. Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. It means not only the carpenter's bench, the plane and the saw, the adze and the auger, but the shop itself. The Gibson Upright They accepted some red worsted caps and fillets, as also a hatchet and an adze, the use of which being explained, was immediately comprehended. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 I also gave to each of them a knife, a small adze, some nails, beads, and a looking-glass. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship It looks a little like a carpenter's adze, though much larger and heavier, the blade being as broad as that of a shovel. Jean Francois Millet If so, it could only have been for a very short time, and probably for no other purpose than to show the builders, that he knew how to handle the adze as well as themselves. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 575, November 10, 1832 However, I made abundance of things, even without tools; and some with no more tools than an adze and a hatchet, which perhaps were never made that way before, and that with infinite labour. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes His first object was to build a stout boat capable of carrying eight or ten oars, in constructing which Phipps used the adze himself. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance However, I made abundance of things, even without tools; and some with no more tools than an adze and a hatchet, which perhaps were never made that way before, and that with infinite labour. Robinson Crusoe In a fit of rage he seized an adze, and darted toward me. My Bondage and My Freedom Below this were found chipped flints, an adze of melaphyre, and a layer of boulders, sand, and clay, brought down by the ice from the higher valley. English Villages She played among the lumber where he worked, and he watched her so intently that he scarred his shinbone with an adze he should have been minding. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene The light came nearer and nearer, till he could see three black slaves, two carrying a chest and a third a lantern, an adze and a basket of plaster. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Thus, though the woodcutter's or carpenter's axe is of bronze in two passages cited, iron is the usual material of the axe or adze. Homer and His Age Make English v as nearly as may be done without touching the lower lip to the upper teeth. x as in six. z nearly as dz in adze. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places. Travels in Alaska Each was roughly squared with the adze and planed and tenoned. My Tropic Isle "Porque no quiero, señor," and he swung the sort of small adze he carried to break up the clods of the field rather loosely and with a determined gleam in his eye. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond In the Odyssey, when the poet describes the process of tempering iron, we read, "as when a smith dips a great axe or an adze in chill water, for thus men temper iron." Homer and His Age He sailed from England and arrived safely at Porto de la Plata, where he took an adze and assisted his men to build a large boat. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 The side-room doors were neatly paneled, though all the lumber had been nibbled into shape with a small narrow Indian adze. Travels in Alaska There was no sensation of overheat, although the arms might weary with the swinging of the heavy maul and the back respond with aches to the stiffened attitude imposed by the adze. My Tropic Isle He was soon on his feet, and the adze was then produced. The Life of Captain James Cook The tools used by the carpenters, as appear from the representations on the monuments, were the axe, the adze, the hand-saw, the chisel, the drill, and the plane. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements Necessity, which is the mother of invention, made them deft and handy with axe and adze, bradawl and waxed end, anvil and forge. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812 However, I made abundance of things, even without tools; and some with no more tools than an adze and a hatchet, which perhaps were never made that way before, and that with infinite labor. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 They fitted out a ship, and he sailed from England, and arrived safely at La Plata, where he took an adze and assisted his men to build a large boat. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism After a time the muskets and some of the other things were given up, so the canoes were returned to their owners, and the adze was demanded. The Life of Captain James Cook I carry a scar on the shin-bone made with an adze I should have been minding when I was looking after her. The Making of an American When the devil was a carpenter, he cut his foot so bad with an adze, he threw it down, and gave up the trade in disgust. Nature and Human Nature I had an adze in my hand, and I suppose he believed me, for he shrugged his shoulders, got up and walked out of the carpenter's shop. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Cutting steps with the adze, we moved in a lateral direction round the base of a dolomite, which blocked our view to the north. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition "Yes, he was a good fellow enough with a saw, or an adze," answered Spike, yawning. Jack Tier The earliest mode of cutting the trunk of a tree into planks, was by the use of the hatchet or the adze. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Throughout the march from Masindi we had managed to carry an adze, a hammer, and a cold chisel. Ismailia The plank is then trimmed down to the desired thickness by blows of the adze struck across the direction of the grain. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The adze proved an excellent instrument for this purpose, a blow sufficing to provide a foothold. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Let us see: Suppose an adze were handed to a carpenter for him to square a beam with it. The Man Who Was Afraid The hatchet, or the adze, will divide it into small parts, but will consume a large portion of the workman's time. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures The adze now came into play, together with the Bandy little axes of the "Forty Thieves". Ismailia The hollowing and general shaping of such dishes is done with a small adze, and they are finished with the knife. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition It's not enough to have hands and an adze; it is also necessary for him to know how to strike the wood so as not to hit his foot instead. The Man Who Was Afraid He is often depicted as wielding a huge adze, and engaged in constructing the world. Religions of Ancient China He sent for a stonemason to chip it off; and the latter plied his adze with great dexterity while the patient sat absolutely rigid, without moving a muscle, and let him chip. The Civilization of China The foundation of every boat is a single piece of timber shaped and hollowed by fire and adze. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Worsley and Crean got a firm footing in a hole excavated with the adze and then lowered me as I cut steps until the full 50 ft. of our alpine rope was out. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition You need these as a carpenter needs an adze and a pointer. The Man Who Was Afraid Dubbing off the ends of the rails, he was in danger of amputating a toe or a foot with every stroke of the adze. On the Track He is often represented pictorially with a huge adze in his hand, and engaged in constructing the world out of the matter which has just begun to take shape. The Civilization of China With this knife most of the finer carving is done, the adze and sword being used chiefly for rough shaping. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo A slide down a slippery slope, with the adze and our cooker going ahead, completed this descent, and incidentally did considerable damage to our much-tried trousers. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition I, Mongondro, in my youth, was a good workman with the adze. South Sea Tales Once I cut my foot with the adze and was laid up; and, another time, a dam I was making was washed away by a flood before I finished it. Joe Wilson and His Mates We put our sticks and the adze on the snow, sat down on them as close to one another as possible, and put our arms round each other. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition Halfway down we had to strike away diagonally to the left, for we noticed that the fragments of ice loosened by the adze were taking a leap into space at the bottom of the slope. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition My end of the rope was anchored to the adze and I had settled myself in the hole braced for a strain in case they slipped. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition We dug a hole in the snow about three feet deep with the adze and put the Primus into it. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition |
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