Blade
[bleɪd] or [bled]
Definition
(noun.) the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge.
(noun.) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water.
(noun.) the part of the skate that slides on the ice.
(noun.) a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue).
(noun.) a cut of beef from the shoulder blade.
(noun.) something long and thin resembling a blade of grass; 'a blade of lint on his suit'.
(noun.) a dashing young man; 'gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures'.
(noun.) especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
(n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
(n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.
(n.) The principal rafters of a roof.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
(v. t.) To furnish with a blade.
(v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Leaf.[2]. Flat part (as of a knife or an oar).[3]. Buck, gallant, spark; gay, dashing fellow.
Edited by Daniel
Definition
n. the leaf or flat part of grass or corn: the cutting part of a knife sword &c.: the flat part of an oar: a dashing fellow.—n. Blade′bone the flat bone at the back of the shoulder: the scapula.—adj. Blad′ed.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- Think you, Tars Tarkas, that John Carter will fly at the first shriek of a cowardly foe who dare not come out into the open and face a good blade? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- These pictures are so perfect in detail that, when photographed and enlarged, objects no greater than a blade of grass may be distinctly recognized. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A very delicate blade devised for very delicate work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her sharp Damascus blade seemed out of place, and useless among rose-leaves. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- By other means, a swing blade, for instance, the matches were all severed from the block. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How is a Razor Blade Made? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An old blade, and rusty somewhat, but the edge and temper still excellent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The next year he was busy trying to perfect a blade that would cut wet grain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Gradually the blade of the scythe was made lighter, the handle was lengthened, and fingers added to collect the grain and carry it to the end of the stroke. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On the top of the gallows is fixed the knife, blade upwards, with its point in the air. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades, That cut you stroking them with idle hand. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But when I looked at my purchase, at home, where no glittering blades came into competition with it, I was astonished to see how handsome it was. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I could see Catherine in the stern but I could not see the water where the blades of the oars dipped. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Dutch also had substituted cylinders armed with blades in place of stampers and used their windmills to run them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They are of course unpolished, but the best specimens are as thin as steel blades and almost as sharp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Disk cultivators are those in which disk blades instead of ploughs are used with which to disturb the soil already broken. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Steam turbine with many blades and 4 nozzles. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then, in 1807, Salonen introduced vibrating knifes over stationary blades, fingers to gather grain to the cutters, and a rake to carry the grain off to one side. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Jews with the fifty-bladed penknives shut them up in despair; the men with the pocket-books made pocket-books of them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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