Noun

(en noun)

The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.

* Shakespeare

His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank .

Meat from that part of an animal.

A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.

The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.

The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.

A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.

The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece of the bit, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.

(sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. See thin,fat,toe.

(slang) An improvised stabbing weapon.

Any of several species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that are primarily distinguished by their brightly colored legs.

A loop forming an eye to a button.

(architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.

(Gwilt)

(metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.

(printing, dated) The body of a type.

(shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.

Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.

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.

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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.