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adze

Meaninga wood-shaping axe

Common meaning: a tool for shaping timber

Journey through time

  1. Old Englishadesa‘a wood-shaping axe’sourceB&T
  2. Middle Englishadese‘an adze’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsa wood-shaping axe → a tool for shaping timberadze‘a tool for shaping timber’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old English adesa ‘a wood-shaping axe’.

Roots

  • adesa Old English “a wood-shaping axe”

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