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Blade

noun

Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole. Synonym: leaf blade.

A dashing young man.

Something long and thin resembling a blade of grass.

A cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard. Synonyms: brand, steel, sword.

A cut of beef from the shoulder blade.

A broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue).

The part of the skate that slides on the ice.

Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water. Synonym: vane.

The flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge.

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"Blade" Quotes from Famous Books

... began to tell. I felt powerless, and his eyes gleamed with fiendish triumph. He raised the shining blade preparatory to sheathing it in my body, when I suddenly felt the ground giving way beneath my feet, and in less time than it takes to relate it, we were rolling over a precipice with a sheer fall of about ten feet. The savage ...

— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman

... to ask For friendship's aid; Deign not to wear a mask Nor wield a coward's blade, But still persist, ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... circle each other, waiting an opportunity to strike, which presently came to my opponent, who aimed a blow at me which I caught when his blade was within an inch of my heart. Putting forth my strength I strove to force his hand so that with his own blade he might kill or wound himself, but after a desperate struggle he broke away. Not a word was spoken by the onlookers, and no sound was heard save ...

— Adventures in Southern Seas - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century • George Forbes

... crowd was aroused to fury by a bugler from the adjoining barracks playing retreat at the moment of decision. All at once the matador seizes the favorable instant. He poises his sword as the bull rushes upon him. The point enters just between the left shoulder and the spine; the long blade glides in up to the hilt. The bull reels and staggers and dies. Sometimes the matador severs the vertebrae. The effect is like magic. He lays the point of his sword between the bull's horns, as lightly as a lady who touches her cavalier with ...

— Castilian Days • John Hay

... and piteous manner begged him to lend him his knife. Joe drew it from his pocket, but could not brace his nerves sufficiently to venture within the suffocating man's reach. At length he bethought him of his pole, and opening the blade thrust it in the end of it and cautiously handed it to Sneak. Sneak immediately ran the sharp steel through the many folds of the snake, and it fell to the ground in a dozen pieces! The poor man's strength ...

— Wild Western Scenes • John Beauchamp Jones

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