Meaning of BLADE in English

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Meaning of BLADE in English

• 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.
• The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
• The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
• The scapula or shoulder blade.
• The principal rafters of a roof.
• 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.
• A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
• To furnish with a blade.
• To put forth or have a blade.

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