Blade

/bleɪd/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
2. The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
3. The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
4. (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
5. A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
6. A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
7. (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
8. (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.

Example Sentences

Sword. — The blade is straight, tapers gradually, is 32 9/16 inches long from shoulder to point, and is fullered on both sides, commencing 2 inches from the shoulder, to about 17 inches from the point, to a thickness of ·035 inch.

Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

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

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

Vice does not thrive here, because the young blades seek it elsewhere.

Young blades were expected to kick over the traces and skirt disaster, before they graduated to matrimonial housekeeping.

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

Want to go blading with me later in the park?

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• blades
• blading
• bladed

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