BLADE

n. 1 knife, cutting edge Don't hold the knife by the blade 2 Literary sword, rapier, sabre, dagger, poniard, stiletto, cutlass, bayonet, knife, penknife, jackknife She plunged the blade in up to the hilt 3 leaf, leaflet, frond, shoot The blades of grass were flattened where he had walked 4 Rather old-fashioned playboy, ladies' man, man about town, fop, dandy He was quite a gay blade in his youth