blade Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
    leaf blade.
  2. noun a dashing young man
    • gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures
  3. noun something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
    • a blade of lint on his suit
  4. noun a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
    steel; brand; sword.
  5. noun a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
  6. noun a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
  7. noun the part of the skate that slides on the ice
  8. noun flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
    vane.
  9. noun the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge

WordNet

Blade noun
Etymology
OE. blade, blad, AS. blæd leaf; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. blwan, E. blow, to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and cf. Foil leaf of metal.
Definitions
  1. 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 crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival.
    First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.
  2. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
  3. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
  4. The scapula or shoulder blade.
  5. pl. (Arch.) The principal rafters of a roof. Weale.
  6. pl. (Com.) 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. De Colange.
  7. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
    He saw a turnkey in a trice Fetter a troublesome blade. Coleridge.
Blade transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To furnish with a blade.
Blade intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To put forth or have a blade.
    As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded As ever in the Muses' garden bladed. P. Fletcher.

Webster 1913