Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a blade or blades, as a plant, a knife, etc.: as, “bladed grass,”
  • 1; “bladed field,”
  • Stripped of blades or leaves.
  • In mineralogy, composed of long and narrow plates like the blade of a knife: as, bladed structure.
  • In heraldry, used when the stalk or the blade of any kind of grain is borne of a color different from the ear or fruit: as, an ear of corn or, bladed vert.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a blade or blades.
  • adjective Divested of blades.
  • adjective (Min.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective having a blade; having the specified number of blades

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade
  • adjective bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination
  • adjective having a blade or blades; often used in combination

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Examples

  • To top it off, she even provides instructions on how to make your own asparagus peeler from a thin bladed knife and a 15 length of 16 gauge wire - in case you don't want to spend for a commercial one.

    Toast: Lindy 2007

  • To top it off, she even provides instructions on how to make your own asparagus peeler from a thin bladed knife and a 15 length of 16 gauge wire - in case you don't want to spend for a commercial one.

    Asparagus with Morels and an XL Digression, blah-di-blah blah. Lindy 2007

  • Complainant 2 pulled away (or "bladed") by turning his right shoulder and arm away from the officer.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • Complainant 2 pulled away (or "bladed") by turning his right shoulder and arm away from the officer.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local jmstroy 2010

  • Complainant 2 pulled away (or "bladed") by turning his right shoulder and arm away from the officer.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • This is a factor to bear in mind when evaluating specific technologies such as bladed solutions to host virtual desktops on a 'one to one' model, versus more of a shared server type of infrastructure.

    The Register 2009

  • What a thrill, but Pete's deflated when he notes that Rita's "bladed":

    Latest amIright Song Parodies 2009

  • What a thrill, but Pete's deflated when he notes that Rita's "bladed":

    Latest amIright Song Parodies 2009

  • This is where the bulk of the cloud IT market will be: re-equipping enterprise data centres to become IT power stations, generating applications as services, and gaining economies of scale from the high utilisation of commodity resources such as bladed x86 processors, scalable modular storage arrays, and an underlying Ethernet network.

    The Register 2009

  • It is thought Hogan, 56, 'bladed', cutting himself to start a flow of blood which then poured down his face and all over his white T-shirt.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

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