Blade
A blade is the flat, sharp part of a tool or weapon used to cut or stab, such as a knife or sword. Most blades have handles. Blades can be used to stab, cut, or separate things. It can also be the top part of grass or the leaf of a plant. Blades come in all different sizes and shapes, sharpness and materials.
Blade Media
The blade of a Japanese sword
Knife of a paper cutter
Clip point knife blade
Blade styles with typical edges shown as dark grey
Drop point knife blade
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Clip point knife blade
Blade styles with typical edges shown as dark grey
A spear-pointed knifeblade.
The Oakeshott typology categorizes knightly swords by their shape.
An Anglo-Saxon "broken-back" seax from Sittingbourne in Kent, inscribed in Insular majuscules ☩ BIORHTELM ME ÞORTE ("Biorhtelm made me") and ☩ S[I]GEBEREHT ME AH ("S[i]gebereht owns me").
