Broad axe can be used in dressing timber to create flat sides. Usually the head is flat on one side and beveled on the other. The flat side is against the wood. It can be struck or swung.
An adz was used afterwards to dress the timber. I was in a 17th century house recently where the timbers had been hand hewn and dressed with an adz but I would have sworn that an plane had been used.
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