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Перевод: adze

[существительное]
тесло [тех.]; струг ; струп ;
[глагол]
тесать; строгать; обтесывать

Тезаурус:

1. It is suggestive that axe or adze blades were the only artefacts common to ancient jade industries even including Mexico and New Zealand.
2. The technique is to stand across the seat and swing the adze backwards and forwards between your legs removing a shaving every time, without digging into the wood and stopping the tool.
3. The symbolic role of greenstone adzes in Maori society is exemplified by the elaborately carved hafts in which they were mounted (plate B) and not least by their designation toki pou tangata , meaning the adze which establishes authority.
4. The Maori obtained their nephrite adze blades by cutting grooves from either face of a boulder, using abrasives and water.
5. Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look, much of it could be put to good decorative effect.
6. When it was as pale and bald as a fledgeling, he dismembered the body, hacked up the meat with a small adze and dropped the cut pieces into a pan of hot oil.
7. If an adze was used, smaller trees might have been more practical so that one finished square might be one round long.
8. The adze is a heavy tool and can do a lot of damage.
9. I watched as one of the men, squatting down by the boar, made a deep incision along the underside from chest to groin, then hacked through the ribs and breast-bone with an adze.
10. (The fact that the Chinese sign for "father" stems from the glyph of a man and a jade adze suggests that a similar notion prevailed in that country as far back as the Shang dynasty.)
11. New Zealand was amply supplied with basalt, greywacke and argillite, each of which is known to have been used for the adze blades used to shape the timbers required for canoes, houses and defensive works.
12. Figure 12 Adze blade carved from a nephrite boulder.
13. The most likely context for discovering the qualities of jade would have been in the course of grinding and polishing axe or adze blades, one of the most widespread components of the Neolithic tool-kit from Europe to China.