blade

Noun
Synonyms: leaf bladeswordbrandsteelvane

WordNet 3.0

Noun (9)

  1. especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petioleSynonyms: 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 guardSynonyms: swordbrandsteel
  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 waterSynonyms: vane
  9. the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Blade \Blade\ (bl[=a]d), v. t. To furnish with a blade. [1913 Webster]
Blade \Blade\, v. i. To put forth or have a blade. [1913 Webster]

As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. --P. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade.— Percival.[1913 Webster]
First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear.— Mark iv. 28.[1913 Webster]

2.The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword. [1913 Webster]

3.The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller. [1913 Webster]

4.The scapula or shoulder blade. [1913 Webster]

5.pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. --Weale. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

7.A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. [1913 Webster]

He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]

8.The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point. [1913 Webster]

"Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue.— H. Sweet.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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