The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole). The lamina.
A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
A homosexual, usually male.
An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down interrogation mark.
The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
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.
The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
Thin plate, foil.
The principal rafters of a roof.
A blade server.
An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
Synonym of knifeblade
The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
A sword or knife.
To stab with a blade
To cut (a person) so as to provoke bleeding.
To furnish with a blade.
To put forth or have a blade.
To skate on rollerblades.
A flowering plant in the genus Leucospermum.
The pincushionplant, a flowering plant in the genus Navarretia.
A device, originally like a small, stuffed cushion, designed to have sewing pins and needles stuck into it to store them safely; some modern pincushions hold the objects magnetically.
The dustymaiden, a flowering plant in the genus Chaenactis.
A person who is pricked or stabbed multiple times with sharp objects; specifically, someone who receives regular hypodermic needle injections.
The coral bead plant, coral moss, or English baby tears (Nertera granadensis), an ornamental plant.
A flowering plant in the genus Scabiosa.
The pincushion cactus, of the genera Escobaria or Mammillaria.
To jab or stick repeatedly with one or more sharp objects, as with pins into a pincushion.
To assume the shape of a pincushion; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit pincushion distortion, where the sides curve inwards.