Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Ascia

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Ascia

（σκέπαρνον, τύκος).

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An adze, used in working wood, as shown in the accompanying illustrations. The left-hand figure represents a ship-carpenter shaping the rib of a vessel with an

Ascia, or Adze.

ascia.

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A mason's hammer used in dressing stone.

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A bricklayer's tool for mixing mortar.

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A hoe.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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