Blade

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  • noun. The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sword.
  • noun. A swordsman.
  • noun. A slender, sharp-edged flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide.
  • noun. A dashing youth.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A flat thin part or section, especially one that makes contact to perform a desired action.
  • noun. An arm of a rotating mechanism.
  • noun. A long, thin, often curved piece, as of metal or rubber, used for plowing, clearing, or wiping.
  • noun. The metal runner of an ice skate.
  • noun. A wide flat bone or bony part.
  • noun. The flat upper surface of the tongue just behind the tip.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The expanded part of a leaf or petal.
  • noun. The leaf of grasses or similar plants.
  • intransitive verb. To skate on in-line skates.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To take off the blades of (herbs).
  • To furnish with a blade; fit a blade to.
  • To come into blade; produce blades.
  • noun. The leaf of a plant, particularly (now perhaps exclusively) of gramineous plants; also, the young stalk or spire of gramineous plants.
  • noun. Tn botany, the lamina or broad part of a leaf, petal, sepal, etc., as distinguished from the petiole or footstalk. See cut under leaf.
  • noun. Anything resembling a blade.
  • noun. A dashing or rollicking fellow; a swaggerer; a rakish fellow; strictly, perhaps, one who is sharp and wide awake: as, “jolly blades,”
  • noun. One of the principal rafters of a roof.
  • noun. That part of an iron head of a golf-club which forms the face or striking-surface.
  • noun. The broad part of a cricket-bat.
  • noun. A swords-man.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To furnish with a blade.
  • intransitive verb. To put forth or have a blade.
  • noun. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
  • noun. The cutting part of an instrument.
  • noun. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
  • noun. The scapula or shoulder blade.
  • noun. The principal rafters of a roof.
  • noun. The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
  • noun. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
  • noun. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade.
  • noun. The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
  • noun. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
  • noun. The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
  • noun. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
  • noun. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
  • noun. The flat part of the tongue.
  • noun. A sword or knife.
  • noun. A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
  • noun. A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
  • noun. The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
  • noun. A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
  • Word Usage
    "Another stomp from Kennata and the ring of my sword blade from the earth — it took only a moment."
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