"That wuz when she fust come, yer know," he said to me one day, leaning against an old boat, his adze in his hand.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Before the snow flew the newcomer was to be housed under his own roof-tree, and today in answer to the verbal announcement that he was to have a "working" on the land he had bought, the community was present, armed with hammer and saw, with adze and plane, mobilized under the auspices of Cyrus Spradling who moved, like a shaggy patron saint, among them.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
If the farm happened to front on some little cove, the frame of a schooner would be set up there on the beach, and all winter long the fisherman-farmer-builder would work away with adze and saw and hammer, putting together the stout hull that would defend him in time against the shock of the north-east sea.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot