blade English
Noun
( wikipedia blade)
( en noun)
The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade.
The flat functional end of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, screwdriver, skate, etc.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston , magazine=(American Scientist)
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The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
(botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
The flat part of the tongue.
(poetic) A sword or knife.
(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.
(ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
(sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
(dated) A dashing young man.
* Coleridge
- He saw a turnkey in a trice / Fetter a troublesome blade .
(slang, chiefly, US) A homosexual, usually male.
Thin plate, foil.
(architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (Weale)
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)
Airfoil]] in windmills and [[w:windturbine, windturbines.
Derived terms
* axeblade
* blade of grass
* blade sharpener
* bladeless
* bladelet
* bladelike
* bladesmith
* doctor blade
* gay blade
* microblade
* oar blade
* razor blade, razor-blade, razorblade
* rollerblade
* shoulder blade, shoulderblade, shoulder-blade
* snowblade
* switchblade
* twayblade
References
* Creswell Crags
Verb
(informal) To skate on rollerblades.
To furnish with a blade.
(poetic) To put forth or have a blade.
* P. Fletcher
- As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed .
Derived terms
* hydroblade
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hone English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).
Noun
( en noun)
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
Derived terms
* hone slate
* hone stone
Verb
To sharpen with a hone .
To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
To refine or master (a skill).
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
To pine; to lament; to long.
- (Lamb)
See also
* grit
* sandpaper
* steel
* strop
* swarf
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic word for "a knob".
Noun
( en noun)
A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Derived terms
* honewort
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