| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl d |
| NOUN: | 1. The flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or tool. 2a. A sword. b. A swordsman. 3. Archaeology A slender, sharp-edged flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. 4. A dashing youth. 5a. A flat thin part or section, especially one that makes contact to perform a desired action: the blade of an oar; the blade of a hockey stick. b. An arm of a rotating mechanism: the blade of a propeller; the blade of food processor. c. A long, thin, often curved piece, as of metal or rubber, used for plowing, clearing, or wiping. 6. The metal runner of an ice skate. 7. A wide flat bone or bony part. 8. The flat upper surface of the tongue just behind the tip. 9. Botany a. The expanded part of a leaf or petal. b. The leaf of grasses or similar plants. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: blad·ed, blad·ing, blades
To skate on in-line skates. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English blæd. See bhel-3 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | blad ed —ADJECTIVE
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