Atool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to formroving of a specified thickness.
2014, Beth Smith,The Spinner's Book of Fleece, page118:
Adiz is a tool that helps you remove fiber from a comb and create a nice length oftop that is a consistent thickness and ready to spin. Manydizzes have holes of varying sizes, so that you can choose the size most appropriate for the yarn you intend to spin: a large hole for bulky yarn, a smaller hole for finer yarn.
“Diz”, inPalgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group[3], archived fromthe original on5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave,A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham[…] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for theEnglish Dialect Society by Henry Frowde,Oxford University Press, 1896,→OCLC.
2013 November 30, Jacobo Sefamí, Miriam Moscona,Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino[5], Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México,→ISBN,page216:
I kero ke este djigante entre i kayga endiz delantre de mi dulse amante[…]
And I want this giant to enter and fall to hisknees before my sweet lover.
Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “diz”, inWörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag,→ISBN, page74
Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e diz¹, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor,Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher,→ISBN, page128