Definition of blade

• n. - 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.
• n. - The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
• n. - The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
• n. - The scapula or shoulder blade.
• n. - The principal rafters of a roof.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
• v. t. - To furnish with a blade.
• v. i. - To put forth or have a blade.
• n. - 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.
• n. - The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
• n. - The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
• n. - The scapula or shoulder blade.
• n. - The principal rafters of a roof.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
• v. t. - To furnish with a blade.
• v. i. - To put forth or have a blade.