noun

A tool similar to an axe, with an arched blade at right angles to the handle, used for cutting or shaping large pieces of wood.

Tools consist now of bone, wood and stone, made up as an adze, knife blade, borer, arrow or spearhead.

verb

Cut away the surface of (a piece of wood) with an adze.

by the time it has been adzed out, you will only have a small edge to clean up