1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
3. Noun
The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
4. Noun
The scapula or shoulder blade.
5. Noun
The principal rafters of a roof.
6. Noun
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.
7. Noun
A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
8. Verb
To furnish with a blade.
9. Verb
To put forth or have a blade.
10. Noun
especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
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