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Blade

Blade Meaning & Definition
Blade Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Blade?

[n] the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
[n] flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
[n] the part of the skate that slides on the ice
[n] a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade
[n] a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
[n] a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
[n] something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade of lint on his suit"
[n] a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"
[n] especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole

Synonyms | Synonyms for Blade: leaf blade | vane

Related Terms | Find terms related to Blade: alveolar ridge | alveolus | apex | arytenoid cartilages | ax | back | battler | bayonet | beau | Beau Brummel | belligerent | belted knight | bickerer | blood | boulevardier | bract | bracteole | bractlet | bravo | brawler | bully | bullyboy | clotheshorse | cold steel | combatant | competitor | contender | contestant | cotyledon | coxcomb | cutlass | cutlery | cutter | cutting edge | dagger | dandy | disputant | dorsum | dude | duelist | edge tools | enforcer | Excalibur | exquisite | fashion plate | fencer | feuder | fighter | fighting cock | fine gentleman | flag | floral leaf | foilsman | foliole | fop | fribble | frond | gallant | gamecock | gladiator | glume | goon | gorilla | hard palate | hatchet man | hood | hoodlum | hooligan | involucre | involucrum | jack-a-dandy | jackanapes | jackknife | jouster | knife | knight | lady-killer | lamina | larynx | leaf | leaflet | lemma | ligule | lips | macaroni | man-about-town | masher | militant | naked steel | nasal cavity | needle | oral cavity | palate | penknife | petal | pharyngeal cavity | pharynx | pigsticker | pile | pine needle | playboy | plug-ugly | point | poniard | puncturer | puppy | quarreler | rapier | rioter | rival | rough | rowdy | ruffian | runner | sabreur | scrapper | scuffler | seed leaf | sepal | sharpener | shoot | Skimobile | sled | sleigh | Sno-Cat | snowmobile | soft palate | spark | spathe | spear | speech organ | spire | sport | squabbler | steel | stiletto | stipula | stipule | strong arm | strong-arm man | strong-armer | struggler | swashbuckler | swell | sword | swordplayer | swordsman | syrinx | teeth | teeth ridge | thug | tilter | tip | toad sticker | tongue | tough | trusty sword | tussler | velum | vocal chink | vocal cords | vocal folds | vocal processes | voice box | weasel | whittle | wrangler

See Also | aerogenerator | anatomical structure | arm | ax | axe | backsword | blade | bodily structure | body structure | brand | broadsword | cavalry sword | chopper | chuck | complex body part | cut of beef | cutlas | cutlass | cutting edge | cutting implement | eggbeater | Excalibur | falchion | fan blade | fencing sword | foible | foliage | forte | haft | helicopter | helve | hilt | ice skate | impeller | knife | knife blade | knife edge | lawn mower | leaf | leafage | mower | oar | paddle | pair of scissors | peak | point | propeller | propellor | rapier | razorblade | ribbon | rotating mechanism | rudder blade | runner | saber | sabre | scissors | spatula | spring chicken | steel | structure | sword | thread | tip | turbine | vane | weapon | weapon system | web | whirlybird | wind generator | windmill | young person | younker | youth

Blade In Webster's Dictionary

\Blade\ (bl[=a]d), n. [OE. blade, blad, AS. bl[ae]d leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla[eth], OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. fy`llon. The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl[=o]wan, E. blow, to blossom. See {Blow} to blossom, and cf. {Foil} leaf of metal.] 1. 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. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. --Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. --Mark iv. 28. 2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. 3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. 4. The scapula or shoulder blade. 5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale. 6. pl. (Com.) 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. --De Colange. 7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. --Coleridge.
\Blade\ (bl[=a]d), v. t. To furnish with a blade.
\Blade\, v. i. To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. --P. Fletcher.
\Blade\, n. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. ``Lower blade'' implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue. --H. Sweet.

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