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Ship's Caulking Tool Kit, ca. 1820

Historic Hallowell - Industrial Recources

"Now here are the descriptions of each tool. The Adze was a shipright's tool used for shaping and dressing wood while the Auger was used for drilling…"

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Shipbuilding Hewing Axe, Shipyard. Hallowell, ca. 1850's

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilding

"There was also the adze, a tool like an axe used for shaping and dressing wood. It was different from an axe because it had a long and slender…"

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'Melissa Trask,' 1884

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… of how proficient a young father was with an axe, adze or saw, he did not receive 75 cents a day (apprentices received fifty cents) per day until…"