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.
The point is that the modern Australian adze was not, as falsely reported, in the pre- historic urn.
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.
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.
In the castles built by the Crusaders, the adze has been worked in a diagonal direction instead of vertically.
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.
The logs are squared in the woods and the butt ends are rounded like the runners of a sleigh, two holes are chopped at the top corners with a small adze called a palacol, through which rattans are passed for the buffaloes to be yoked to.
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.
John Jones and I then proceeded to the house at Pont y Meibion, where we saw two men, one turning a grindstone, and the other holding an adze to it.
Never again could he rise in the morning with a song on his lips; never again his happy meditations go lilting with the clanging blows of the adze and the singing of the saws.
In north-west America and in the Caribbean area the adze was highly developed.
What happened next I do not know, but I shall always maintain that, seeing an eligible blade of grass above him, he plunged the adze in and hauled with both hands.
Our axes emitted electric sparks, or rather faint but steady little flames, on both the adzeand pick part; so also did our gloves, the hair of which stood out quite straight.
The tools most useful for this purpose are the adze and axe, and sometimes the sledge and chisel.
The adze will come into good use in trimming off the wood on these curves.
Tom, bringing in the axes and adzeout of the tent.
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.
I can manage all that, sir, if I may take an axe or two and an adze from the shop here.
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.
He is not using iron to make a sword or spear, but a tool-adze or axe.
John Jones and I then proceeded to the house at Pont y Meibion, where we saw two men, one turning a grind-stone, and the other holding an adze to it.
These latter were of the most primitive construction, nothing more than puncheons smoothed down with the adze and supported by wooden trestles.
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 people mount it in two ways, either as an axe in line with, or as an adze at a right angle to, the helve.
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.
In the last implement described, the reduction in width towards the middle of the blade would appear to have been intended to assist in fastening it at the end of a handle, as an adze cutting at each end.
The right-hand figure probably represents an adze from the Savage Islands.
It would appear to have been intended for mounting as a hollow adze rather than as a gouge, and would when thus mounted have formed a useful tool for hollowing canoes, or for other similar purposes.
A North American adzein the Ethnological Museum, at Copenhagen, is thus mounted, the cord being apparently of gut.
In the Fitch Collection is a small flint adze of this character, but rather narrower, and very much thinner in proportion.
Whether it was used as a narrow adze or axe, or after the manner of a chisel, it is difficult to say.
As will be observed, it is curved longitudinally, so that if attached to a handle, it must have been after the manner of an adze and not of an axe.
I have a fine bowed narrow adze (7 inches) ground at the edge only, from Hampshire.
An intermediate form between a hammer and an adze will be subsequently described at p.
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.
With his adzehe shaped both sides, using the forms he had previously prepared.
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.
Trees were felled and sawed into planks, Anson working with axe and adzeas vigorously as any of his men.
Such a piece is shaved with the adzeuntil it is roughly cylindrical and three to four inches in diameter (Pl.
The adze consists of a flat blade of steel in the shape of a highly acute-angled triangle (Pl.
With this knife most of the finer carving is done, the adze and sword being used chiefly for rough shaping.
The plank is then trimmed down to the desired thickness by blows of the adze struck across the direction of the grain.
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.
Mangaian symbolic adzein the Copenhagen Museum; from Dr.
On the Hervey Islands the transition was easier, as there the stone adzeitself is considered as a god.
Even the fine plait of coco-nut fibre with which the adze is fastened to the shaft was a god, and the method of binding it had, in Mangaia, been taught by the gods.
This story I treated as improbable, and addressed a man, who seemed of some consequence, for the restitution of a cooper's adze we had lost in the morning.
But when she found I was determined, she and three or four more women went away; and soon after the adze was brought me, but I saw her no more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adze" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
