Noun

(en noun)

A sharp protective spine of a plant.

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.

the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn

(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7

There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

* South

The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.

A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh

* See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

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.