blade
blade Lexical Profile
blade Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The flat, sharp cutting edge of a knife, saw, razor, or other tool or weapon; by extension, a sword or knife as a whole.
"The carpenter carefully sharpened the steel blade of his chisel before carving the oak beam."
The long, narrow, flat leaf of grass, wheat, or another cereal plant, or the broad, expanded portion of any leaf as distinct from its stalk.
"Morning dew glistened on every single blade of grass across the quiet meadow."
The flat, wide part of a mechanical or sporting device that pushes against air, water, ice, or earth, such as the arm of a propeller, turbine, oar, ice skate, or bulldozer.
"The rower dipped the blade of the oar cleanly into the calm river water."
A flat, wide bone in the body, especially the shoulder blade (scapula), or the flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip.
"The physical therapist massaged the tense muscles around his right shoulder blade."
A dashing, jaunty, or stylish young man (an archaic or literary usage).
"In the nineteenth-century novel, the young blade spent his evenings at fashionable London clubs."
• verb
To skate on inline skates (rollerblades).
"They bladed along the paved beachfront promenade all afternoon."
To level, scrape, or clear soil, snow, or gravel using a heavy machine fitted with a wide flat blade, such as a bulldozer or road grader.
"The road crew bladed the unpaved mountain track after the spring mudslides."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'blæd', meaning a leaf of a plant or grass, from the Proto-Germanic root '*blada-' (meaning 'leaf'), ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root '*bhel-' ('to thrive, bloom'). The sense of the flat cutting part of a knife or sword developed in the 14th century by analogy of shape.
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