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Flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
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blade
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English blæd "a leaf," but also "a leaf-like part" (of spade, oar, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *bladaz (cognates: Old Frisian bled "leaf," German Blatt , Old Saxon, Danish, Dutch blad , Old Norse blað ), from PIE *bhle-to- , suffixed form (past participle) ...
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Blade is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan , his first appearance was in the comic book The Tomb of Dracula #10 (July 1973) as a supporting character ...
Usage examples of blade.
We all looked on with horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass through the interstice where scarce a knife blade could have gone.
As more and more antenna blades were stuck to its skin, the once-graceful U-2 was beginning to resemble a porcupine.
The only difference between us and the Aztecs is one of method: we have anesthesia, we have antisepsis and asepsis, we use scalpels instead of obsidian blades to cut out the hearts of our victims.
In no case was the blade of the leaf, even the attenuated apex, at all inflected.
More than anything, she wanted to learn that dance, to weave her own sword in graceful circles, to feel her bare feet become so attuned to the moist grass below them that they could feel every blade and every contour in the ground.
The autogiro seemed to poise, motionless in the air, except for the whizz of the long-armed blades that rotated atop the ship.
He arced the scimitar into the neck of a burly Automaton, then pivoted to slice his blade into the head of a deranged woman.
He strode towards Alyssa, intent on avenging his comrade, but as he did so his blade flew out to the side and caught Barca a sharp blow on his kneecap.
Where Baria leads, Mesker follows, or will you now cross blades with your brother?
Biting off an oath, the fellow whirled to face Perrin, baring a good hand of his sword blade.
The officer barked an oath and the blade leaped clean of the scabbard.
He had one of them folding pocket-knives with about a hundred blades: some for apples, some for pears, some for boys, and little ones for babies, thought Barnacle humorously .
Benito Barranca darted through it, clutching a lifted blade that flashed like glass.
The weapon was called the horned blade, a creation of the mad warlock Azran Bedlam, and it was evil.
The first angled blow was heavy as a battle-hammer and Bern barely got his own blade across his body and in front of it.