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Blade :: Blade (n.) 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..

Scraper :: Scraper (n.) In the printing press, a board, or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet and thus produce the impression..

Blunger :: Blunger (n.) A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger..

Axe :: Axe (n.) A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle..

Lance :: Lance (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen..

Oar :: Oar (n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom..

Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..

Runner :: Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

Cream-slice :: Cream-slice (n.) A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff..

Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Averruncator :: Averruncator (n.) An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod..

Tremolite :: Tremolite (n.) A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses..

Bow-saw :: Bow-saw (n.) A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

Kayak :: Kayak (n.) A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes..

Sabre :: Sabre (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword..

Feathering :: Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t..

Fin :: Fin (n.) A blade of whalebone.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) That part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle.

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