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Blade   /bleɪd/   Listen
Blade

noun
1.
Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.  Synonym: leaf blade.
2.
A dashing young man.
3.
Something long and thin resembling a blade of grass.
4.
A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard.  Synonyms: brand, steel, sword.
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.  Synonym: vane.
9.
The flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge.



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"Blade" Quotes from Famous Books



... I heard the steel clash. Then very soon came silence. I looked again, and saw Ringan wiping his blade on a bunch of grass, and a body lying ...
— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan
... a mean-looking knife, with a buck-horn handle and a four-inch blade that leaped open on pressure of a spring. Its type was widely popular all over the West in those days, but one of them would be almost a curiosity now. But Jim had it out, anyhow, lying on his back with the Duke's knee on his ribs, and ...
— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden
... will attract iron, but soft or annealed iron does not retain the magnetism nearly so well as steel. Hence a boy's test for the steel of his knife is only efficacious when the blade itself becomes magnetic after being touched with the magnet. A piece of steel is readily magnetised by stroking it from end to end in one direction with the pole of a magnet, and in this way compass needles and powerful bar magnets ...
— The Story Of Electricity • John Munro
... quarter, a low-decked locker running from bow to midships,—along each side of which were to be seen, half seated, half standing, some half-dozen dark-skinned men, each plying, instead of an oar, a paddle-blade. ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various
... the egg-shell with the blade of a knife. He uttered a cry of surprise. The shell contained nothing but a small piece of blue paper. At the request of Arsene he unfolded it. It was a telegram, or rather a portion of a telegram from which the post-marks had been removed. ...
— The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar • Maurice Leblanc


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