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Discover Ludwig'blade' is a perfectly acceptable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a sharp, flat edge attached to a handle, such as a knife or sword. For example, "The soldier unsheathed his sword, revealing its sharp, glinting blade."
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blade
noun
The sharp cutting edge of a knife, chisel, or other tool, a razor blade/sword.
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7 Insert the blade of a sharp, thin-bladed, flexible knife into the opening of the body pouch and slit it open along one side.
The most the prosecution ever asserted was that Kercher's DNA was on the tip of the blade.
The kitchen knife, found in Sollecito's house, had Knox's DNA near the handle and Miss Kercher's on the blade, the reports said.
One of the gang members threatens Hogan and his new squeeze with a blade while he demands money from the couple.
But just the other day, for instance, I got a tweet that said, "May your bloodied head rest on the edge of an Isis blade".
Benicio Del Toro plays a violent member of a Mexican drug cartel, but the close cropping of these photos makes it impossible to tell how long his blade is.
The blade was not the same one he had on him when he was arrested.
It was nudging a spherical boulder as high as its blade, one metre in diameter.
Jeanetta took a fillet knife with a three-and-a-half-inch blade from beneath the car seat.
She underwent an excruciatingly painful labour and her baby died in her womb before being removed by an operation with no anaesthetic by a doctor using a razor blade.
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Few people, though, seem willing to bet that Gillette's five-bladed Fusion is the end of the road for razor-blade escalation.
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