adz

[ adz ]

noun

, adzed, adz·ing.

1. a variant of adze.

Example Sentences

Neamat brandished an adz and hacked the sharp corners of a piece of a mulberry tree trunk into the rounded outline of the rubab it would become in 10 days.

From Los Angeles Times

It partly harks back to Stevens’ 2010 album, “The Age of Adz,” which embraced excess, piling synthesizers atop orchestras, choirs and rock band.

From New York Times

If his early records echoed folkie preciousness and Summer of Love exuberance, and Age of Adz was kind of a jumbled prog rock–ish stab at significance, then Carrie & Lowell was his early-1970s-style singer-songwriter confessional, à la Joni Mitchell on Blue or Bob Dylan on Blood on the Tracks.

From Slate

Stevens’ response was to lay down his banjo and make 2010’s The Age of Adz, a noisy electronic album that at the time struck me as an awkward effort to catch up to indie’s growing awareness of pop, with clumsy beats and a strained tone I traced to his reflexive disdain for the worldliness of mass culture.

From Slate

Others are odd yet exquisitely shaped to their purpose, like the Pulaski, which has a head with an ax at one side and an adz on the other that can break up packed dirt.

From New York Times