bladed
bladed Lexical Profile
bladed Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Having a blade or a specified number or type of blades, such as on a cutting tool, fan, propeller, or oar.
"The engineer tested a three-bladed wind turbine to see how efficiently it generated power in light breezes."
In mineralogy and botany, composed of or shaped like flat, elongated plates or narrow leaves.
"Kyanite is easily identified in metamorphic rocks by its distinctive blue, bladed crystal habit."
• verb
To skate on inline skates (past tense and past participle of blade).
"They bladed along the paved boardwalk for two hours on Saturday morning."
To furnish with a blade, or to level and smooth a surface using a heavy grader blade (past tense and past participle of blade).
"The road crew bladed the gravel driveway after the spring thaw washed out the ruts."
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the noun 'blade', which comes from Old English 'blæd' meaning a leaf of a plant or grass, combined with the suffix '-ed' indicating possession or form.
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