Examples from literature

• I also gave to each of them a knife, a small adze, some nails, beads, and a looking-glass. 
• The sides are smoothed with adzes of the same materials and construction, but of a smaller size. 
• Then the carpenters landed, who had great axes in their hands, and planes and adzes hung at their sides. 
• To do this work the only tools the carpenter and his assistants had were two adzes and two small tomahawks. 
• We dug a hole in the snow about three feet deep with the adze and put the Primus into it. 
• 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.