Word Finder - blade

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The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.

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The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.

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The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

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The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.

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A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

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A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

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The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.

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A sword or knife.

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A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.

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(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.

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The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.

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A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.

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A dashing young man.

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A homosexual, usually male.

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Thin plate, foil.

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One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.

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(in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.

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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.

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Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.

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A blade server.

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An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)

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The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

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To skate on rollerblades.

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Want to go blading with me later in the park?

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To furnish with a blade.

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To put forth or have a blade.

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To stab with a blade

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The gang member got bladed in a fight.

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To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.

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A kind of piton used in thin cracks.

I felt a sharp sting as the blade cut.

The ax blade went about an inch into the wood.

The blade of the dagger snapped in two.

It is somewhat like an axe reversed, the edge of the blade curving inward and placed at right angles to the handle.

The seeds are sown in April, on rich ground, which should not be too highly manured; the young larches are planted out when two years old, or sometimes transferred to a nursery bed to attain a larger size; but, like all conifers, they succeed best when planted young; on the mountains, the seedlings are usually put into a mere slit made in the ground by a spade with a triangular blade, the place being first cleared of any heath, bracken, or tall herbage that might smother the young tree; the plants should be from 3 to 4 ft.

Rhyn tossed the blade back to Jade, who caught it with a look that made Katie want to hide.

His buddy grabbed her and wrapped one arm around her neck, the cold blade of a knife biting her throat.

In Arum the blade is simple, as also in the so-called arum-lily (Richardia), a South African species common in Britain as a greenhouse plant, and in Caladium, a tropical South American genus, and Alocasia (tropical Asia), species of which are favourite warm-greenhouse plants on account of their variegated leaves.

The fore-sight of the Krag-Jorgensen rifle, used in the United States army until 1906, consisted of a blade with parallel sides.

I xplained Howie wasn't the sharpest blade in the knife drawer and he didn't react well when pressured.

Only to find herself staring at the bubbles of blood forming from within his fist, which was clamped around the blade of a knife a few inches from her face.

She shoved one blade into her belt and stripped the knives off the dead men, putting them in her cargo pockets.

A curious blade of copper (32), straight sided, and sharpened at both ends, belongs to the close of the prehistoric age.

They consist of two distinct portions, the sheath and the blade.

The knife is then carefully examined, and if there be the slightest flaw in its blade the meat cannot be eaten, as the cut would not have been clean, the uneven blade causing a thrill to pass through the beast and thus driving the blood again through the arteries.

A'Ran retrieved one sword from its stand, flipped it in the air, and caught the blade.

Among other tools, they found one that looked like a hockey puck with a sharp blade.

As the whip continued and reached the peak of its arch, he let it fall again, whipping more grass with the other side of the blade.

The noblewoman withdrew a delicate knife and flicked the inside of her wrist with the tip of the blade.

This shape is most suitable for planing uneven timber, as inequalities are "hooked off" by the curved blade.

The individual is doubled up with acute pains which, starting from the hepatic region, spread through the abdomen and radiate to the right shoulder blade.

The opposite or alternate leaves have a pair of small stipules at the base of the stalk and a palminerved blade.

Wayland's son Wittich, and was cunningly exchanged by Hilde - brand for a commoner blade before Wittich's fight with Dietrich.

In Laminariaceae there is a distinction of stipe and blade.

While the laminated portion of the thallus is being gradually worn off in our latitudes during the autumnal storms, a vigorous new growth appears at the junction of the stipe and the blade, as the result of which a new piece is added to the stipe and the lamina entirely renovated.

The implements used are two makes of iron-shod wooden ploughs; a large shovel, worked by three or five men, one working the handle, the others jerking the blade by ropes attached to it; a short sharp-pointed hoe, a bamboo rake, and a wooden barrow, all of rude construction.

A two-edged weapon, of which the blade is of sharks' teeth, and a defensive armour of braided sennit, are also peculiar to the islands; a large adze, made of the shell of the Tridacna gigas (the largest bivalve known), was formerly used in the Carolines, probably by the old builder race.

In Malwa a flat scraper is employed, a small piece of cotton soaked in linseed oil being attached to the upper part of the blade, and used for smearing the thumb and edge of the scraper to prevent adhesion of the juice; sometimes water is used instead of oil, but both practices injure the quality of the product.

In this case, the claw-like terminal segment may be simply flexed against the preceding in the same way as the blade of a penknife shuts up against the handle.

They weighed 135 lb each, the length of each blade being close upon 9 ft.

It serves to prevent rain-water, which has run down the blade, from entering the sheath.

The blade is frequently wanting or small and imperfect in the basal leaves, but in the rest is long and set on to the sheath at an angle.

The chief modifications are the articulation of the deciduous blade on to the sheath, which occurs in all the Bambuseae (except Planotia) and in Spartina stricta; and the interposition of a petiole between the sheath and the blade, as in bamboos, Leptaspis, Pharus, Pariana, Lophatherum and others.

The leaves are occasionally woolly, as in Alopecurus lanatus and one or two Panicums. The blade is often twisted, frequently so much so that the upper and under faces become reversed.

In dry-country grasses the blades are often folded on the midrib, or rolled up. The rolling is effected by bands of large wedge-shaped cells - motor-cells - between the nerves, the loss of turgescence by which, as the air dries, causes the blade to curl towards the face on which they occur.

The district has given its name to a celebrated type of axe, consisting of a long shaft with a blade like a scythe and a large hook behind it, which, according to Sir Walter Scott, was introduced into the Highlands and Ireland from Scandinavia.

Its leaves have each a long sheath encircling the stem, and at the junction of the blade or "flag" with the sheath a small whitish outgrowth or "ligula."

Its hardness is greater than that of steel, so that a knife blade leaves a grey metallic streak when drawn across its surface.

A petal often consists of two portions - the lower narrow, resembling the petiole of a leaf, and called the unguis or claw; the upper broader, like the blade of a leaf, and called the lamina or limb.

An angry line of blood bubbled in the blade's wake.

If he had simply wanted different clothes, she might have complied, but what he wanted to do was slice his clothing up with a razor blade and get jeans so long that they shredded from being walked on – like the other band members.

Thus, the effect of the varying airspeed as a result of blade rotation is nullified.

Sigurd tested the strength of the blade by striking the anvil on which it was forged and split it down to the stock.

Any areas which do not meet the batt can be teased downwards with a metal blade.

The blade has a flat bevel and is easy to sharpen using a Japanese Water Stone.

Blade fragment, edge bevel well defined 4.5mm away from blade edge on one side.

To sharpen the blade, hold the handle in the right hand.

Rotary lawn mowers Back to top A rotary lawn mower cuts the grass using a rotating blade (I kid you not ).

Very slowly he turned his head, and found himself looking up the slightly curved blade of a Servii saber.

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