Well, come over here and we will soon fill the basket," and he led the way to where two men were at work with sharp adzes smoothing down a big stick of timber.
"A Little Maid of Old Maine"
Alice Turner Curtis
Their hatchets, or rather adzes, were exactly of the same pattern, and either made of the same sort of blackish stone, or of a clay-coloured one.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr
The presence of food and drinking vessels in the tumuli clearly shows this, and also the store of weapons and implements, adzes, hammers, scrapers, and other tools which the barrows have preserved through so many ages.
"English Villages"
P. H. Ditchfield