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noun The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool.
noun A sword.
noun A swordsman.

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The leaf of a plant, particularly (now perhaps exclusively) of gramineous plants; also, the young stalk or spire of gramineous plants. But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. Mat. xiii. 26. Whoever could make … two blades of grass to grow … where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind … than the whole race of politicians. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, ii. 7. The varying year with blade and sheaf. Tennyson, Day-Dream.
Tn botany, the lamina or broad part of a leaf, petal, sepal, etc., as distinguished from the petiole or footstalk. See cut under leaf.
Anything resembling a blade. A sword; also, the flat, thin, cutting part of a knife or other cutting-tool. If ere your blades Had point or prowess, prove them now. Moore, Lalla Rookh. The famous Damascus blades, so renowned in the time of the Crusaders, are made here no longer. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 130. The broad, flattened part of certain instruments and utensils, as of an oar, a paddle, a spade, etc. The blade of her light oar threw off its shower of spray. Whittier, Bridal of Pennacook. A broad flattened part of a bone: as, a jaw-blade; specifically, the scapula or shoulder-blade. Atrides' lance did gore Pylæmen's shoulder in the blade. Chapman, Iliad, v. The front flat part of the tongue. H. Sweet, Handbook of Phonetics. A commercial name for the four large plates on the sides, and the five large plates in the middle, of the upper shell of the sea-turtle, which yield the best tortoise-shell. That limb of a level which is movable on a pivot at the joint, in order that it may be adjusted to include any angle between it and the stock. The float or vane of a propeller or paddle-wheel. The web or plate of a saw. The edge of a sectorial tooth. In entomology, one of the flat, two-edged plates forming the sword-like ovipositor of certain Orthoptera and Homoptera; in a wider sense, the ovipositor itself.

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They check the rescue equipment on board It's hard to talk over the steady whop-whop of the blades, which is just as well, because Jimmy doesn't have much to say. — Asimov's SF, October-November2006
His first guitars were made using a "tiny, cheesy band saw, where the blades were always breaking," McCollum says.
In a vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT), the blades are attached to a central vertical shaft. — Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles
[January 3, 2008] As blades become increasingly commonplace in the enterprise, vendors are refining their offerings to ensure their blades are a cut above the competition. — ServerWatch
Also the blades could be a little bit eroded due this impact.

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