[syn: blade, vane]
9. the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blade \Blade\ (bl[=a]d), v. t.
To furnish with a blade.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blade \Blade\, v. i.
To put forth or have a blade.
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As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded
As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. --P. Fletcher.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blade \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.]
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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.
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The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade.
--Percival.
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First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn
in the ear. --Mark iv. 28.
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2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a
knife or a sword.
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3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms
of a screw propeller.
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4. The scapula or shoulder blade.
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5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale.
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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.
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7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a
word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
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He saw a turnkey in a trice
Fetter a troublesome blade. --Coleridge.
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8. The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or
point.
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"Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead
of the upper surface of the tongue. --H. Sweet.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blade
n 1: especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf
as distinct from the petiole [syn: blade, leaf blade]
2: a dashing young man; "gay young blades bragged of their
amorous adventures"
3: something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; "a blade
of lint on his suit"
4: a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and
a hilt with a hand guard [syn: sword, blade, brand,
steel]
5: a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
6: a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
7: the part of the skate that slides on the ice
8: flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
[syn: blade, vane]
9: the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a
cutting edge
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
167 Moby Thesaurus words for "blade":
Beau Brummel, Excalibur, Skimobile, Sno-Cat, alveolar ridge,
alveolus, apex, arytenoid cartilages, ax, back, battler, bayonet,
beau, 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, 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, sled, sleigh, 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
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
BLADE
Basic Linear Algebra for Distributed Environments
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Blade
applied to the glittering point of a spear (Job 39:23) or sword
(Nah. 3:3), the blade of a dagger (Judg. 3:22); the "shoulder
blade" (Job 31:22); the "blade" of cereals (Matt. 13:26).