BLADE

I. noun see: blow Date: before 12th century 1. leaf 1a(1), the flat expanded part of a leaf as distinguished from the petiole, something resembling the ~ of a leaf: as, the broad flattened part of an oar or paddle, an arm of a screw propeller, electric fan, or steam turbine, the broad flat or concave part of a machine (as a bulldozer or snowplow) that comes into contact with the material to be moved, a broad flat body part, the flat portion of the tongue immediately behind the tip, 3. the cutting part of an implement, b. sword , swordsman , a dashing lively man, the runner of an ice skate, ~like adjective II. intransitive verb (~d; blading) Date: 1989 to skate on in-line skates, ~r noun