a tree; more specifically, a living tree / the bent and gnarled trunk or roots of an old tree / wood, lumber / something made of wood / in ancient China, a wooden musical instrument

adze

to use / to employ / to make use of, to apply / to spend

to shave; to plane / to delete; to cut off

(not of a person) old, aged, antiquated

plane, whittle

the past / ancient times

old

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend