Definitions for blade

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blade blade

Spelling: [bleyd]

IPA: /bleɪd/

Blade is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in blade (abdel).

Definitions for blade

noun

1. the flat cutting part of a sword, knife, etc.
2. a sword, rapier, or the like.
3. a similar part, as of a mechanism, used for clearing, wiping, scraping, etc.:
4. the arm of a propeller or other similar rotary mechanism, as an electric fan or turbine.
5. Botany. the leaf of a plant, especially of a grass or cereal. the broad part of a leaf, as distinguished from the stalk or petiole.
6. the metal part of an ice skate that comes into contact with the ice.
7. a thin, flat part of something, as of an oar or a bone:
8. Archaic. a dashing, swaggering, or jaunty young man:
9. a swordsman.
10. Phonetics. the foremost and most readily flexible portion of the tongue, including the tip and implying the upper and lower surfaces and edges. the upper surface of the tongue directly behind the tip, lying beneath the alveolar ridge when the tongue is in a resting position.
11. the elongated hind part of a fowl's single comb.

Origin of blade

before 1000; Middle English; Old English blæd blade of grass; cognate with Dutch blad, Old Norse blath, German Blatt; akin to blow³

Examples for blade

"You want to keep me here because you are afraid of me," cried the indignant blade man.

Then he melted the dust and poured the hot liquid into a mould the shape of a blade.

Every flower, every blade of grass, every tree had to be created in CG.

Despite a dizzying number of women coming forward against her husband, Camille Cosby refuses to sharpen her blade of vengeance.

The labels included a picture of a butterfly on a blade of grass.

Soon after 1pm, police were called to reports of a man with a blade in the street.

Lay it on a flat plate, and bruise it with the blade of a knife.

I remember being worried by his view of human nature, in A blade of Light and Hard Rain Falling.

Therein is the blade of the knife, the knife which falls and severs.

So keen the blade, so soft the touch, the sleeper did not wake!