Word Direct Answers

What does "blade" mean?

Blade: 2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
  2. 3.The scapula or shoulder blade.
  3. 4.pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.
  4. 5.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.
  5. 6.A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning. He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.
  6. 7.To furnish with a blade.
  7. 8.To put forth or have a blade. As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

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