blade

blade is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 18 senses

Definitions

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. transitive verb. To furnish with a blade.
9. intransitive verb. To put forth or have a blade.
10. noun. the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
11. noun. flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water

    Synonyms: vane

12. noun. the part of the skate that slides on the ice
13. noun. a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

    Synonyms: brand, steel, sword

14. noun. a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
15. noun. a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
16. noun. something long and thin resembling a blade of grass

    "a blade of lint on his suit"

17. noun. a dashing young man

    "gay young blades bragged of their amorous adventures"

18. noun. especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole

Synonyms

vane, brand, steel, sword

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blade:

abled, baled

Common word forms

bladed, blader, blades, blading, bladeless

Words from these letters

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