He carried with him certain tools for a purpose, axes, cross-cut saws, iron wedges, a Froe to flake off uniform slabs of cedar.
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Father cut a green black oak and sawed off some bolts, took a Froe, that he brought from York State, and rived out shakes three inches wide and about an inch thick.
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The remaining part of the fabric consists of a rough cover of thin slabs of wood, split first with a mall and wedges, and afterwards riven with an instrument or tool termed a Froe.
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