blade

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Several times I passed my thumb along the handle of my knife, till it rested upon the short stump of the broken blade, or rather upon the neck, for the blade was all gone.

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  1. noun The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.
  2. noun A sword.
  3. noun A swordsman.
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  • As the tip pulled clear, the body seemed to melt under it, as if the blade were all that had held the body together. —  Witch Star.htm
  • This lack of control is to be expected at first, simply because you will be overly anxious to assure yourself that his blade is absolutely knocked aside. —  COLD STEEL
  • Because the blade was aimed at his chest, Doc took it squarely. —  111 - The Pirate Isle
  • The point was covered with a sticky, dark substance Higher on the blade was the unmistakable scarlet stain of dried blood. —  038 - The Men Who Smiled No More
  • And if the blade was as sharp as it looked, she didn't want to grab the end she could reach. —  The Warslayer
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knife ·  weapon ·  steel ·  tooth ·  shaft ·  finger ·  thrust ·  ring ·  cut ·  wheel ·  shield ·  stick

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blade:   blades
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English blæd; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English blad, blade, bladde, a leaf of grass or corn (not found in the general sense of ‘leaf’), commonly the cutting part of a knife or sword, the sword itself, from Anglo-Saxon blæd (plural bladu, blado), a leaf, broad part of a thing, as of an oar (= Old Saxon blad = OFries. bled = Dutch blad = Middle Low German blat, Low German blad = Old High German Middle High German blat, German blatt = Icelandic bladh = Swedish Danish blad, a leaf), perhaps, with orig. past participle suffix -d (as in sad, cold, old, loud, etc.), from blōwan (√ *bla, *blo), blow, bloom, whence also English bloom, blossom, akin to L. flos (flor-), later English flower. To the same ult. root belongs perhaps L. folium = Greek φύλλον, leaf: see folio, foil. The reg. modern English form would be blad (like sad, glad, etc.); the long vowel is due to the Middle English inflected forms, blade, etc.
  2. from Middle English bladen (= Middle Low German bladen = Swedish bläda, thin out plants); from the noun.
 

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