Blade

Blade - Other Definitions

• (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.