Blade

Quick meaning: Blade is a noun meaning The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

Meaning

The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

More Meanings

1. The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
2. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
3. (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
4. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
5. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
6. (archaeology) 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.
7. (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.

Example Sentences

Want to go blading with me later in the park?

He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.

He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;

But very often blust'ring blades / Are Jerry Sneaks at home.

Word Forms

• blades
• blading
• bladed

Synonyms for blade

Depending on context, synonyms include lamina, knifeblade, brand, steel, sword, vane.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sword, vane, brand, steel, knife, shiv.

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