Blade vs. Cutlass
Bladenoun
The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
Cutlassnoun
(nautical) A short sword with a curved blade, and a convex edge; once used by sailors when boarding an enemy ship.
Bladenoun
The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
Cutlassnoun
A similarly shaped tool; a machete.
Bladenoun
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
Cutlassverb
(transitive) To cut back (vegetation) with a cutlass.
Bladenoun
(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
Cutlassnoun
A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.
Bladenoun
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
Cutlassnoun
a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors
Bladenoun
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
Cutlass
A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a common naval weapon during the early Age of Sail.
Bladenoun
The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants. Body parts
Bladenoun
(poetic) A sword or knife.
Bladenoun
(archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
Bladenoun
(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
Bladenoun
(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
Bladenoun
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
Bladenoun
(dated) A dashing young man.
Bladenoun
A homosexual, usually male.
Bladenoun
Thin plate, foil.
Bladenoun
(photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
Bladenoun
The principal rafters of a roof.
Bladenoun
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.
Bladenoun
Airfoil in windmills and windturbines.
Bladenoun
(computing) A blade server.
Bladenoun
(climbing) knifeblade
Bladenoun
(mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
Bladenoun
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
Bladeverb
(informal) To skate on rollerblades.
Bladeverb
(transitive) To furnish with a blade.
Bladeverb
To put forth or have a blade.
Bladeverb
(transitive) To stab with a blade
Bladeverb
To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
Bladenoun
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.’; ‘First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear.’;
Bladenoun
The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
Bladenoun
The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
Bladenoun
The scapula or shoulder blade.
Bladenoun
The principal rafters of a roof.
Bladenoun
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.
Bladenoun
A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; - a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
‘He saw a turnkey in a triceFetter a troublesome blade.’;
Bladenoun
The flat part of the tongue immediately behind the tip, or point.
‘"Lower blade" implies, of course, the lower instead of the upper surface of the tongue.’;
Bladeverb
To furnish with a blade.
Bladeverb
To put forth or have a blade.
‘As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is fadedAs ever in the Muses' garden bladed.’;
Bladenoun
especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
Bladenoun
a dashing young man;
‘gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures’;
Bladenoun
something long and thin resembling a blade of grass;
‘a blade of lint on his suit’;
Bladenoun
a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade
Bladenoun
a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
Bladenoun
a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
Bladenoun
the part of the skate that slides on the ice
Bladenoun
flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
Bladenoun
the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
Blade
A blade is the portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with an edge that is designed to puncture, chop, slice or scrape surfaces or materials. Blades are typically made from materials that are harder than those they are to be used on.
