n
Obsolete spelling of arrow [A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.]
n
Alternative form of bezel [The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.]
n
(archeology) A primitive tool that is pointed at both ends.
n
The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
adj
Having a blade; having the specified number or type of blades.
n
A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
n
(surgery) A double-edged, sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
n
An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
n
The curve of the upper lip which resembles such a bow; the philtrum.
adj
(of paper) Having a deckle edge.
n
(plural only, African-American Vernacular) The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.
adj
Notched at the summit.
n
The edge of a new knife. A new knife is not necessarily polished to its full potential or to the customer's liking.
v
(transitive) To give a very thin edge to.
n
Alternative form of feather edge [An edge of a board, plank, etc. that has been made very thin.]
v
(transitive, mechanics) To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
n
(swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
adv
With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).
n
(sound engineering) A device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds.
v
To mark a map with hachures.
n
The hollow behind the knee.
n
A device used in surgical procedures to lengthen or reshape limb bones; to treat complex and/or open bone fractures; and in cases of infected non-unions of bones that are not amenable to other techniques.
adj
Having bent joints like those of knees.
n
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
adj
Alternative form of knob-and-tube [Of or pertaining to a type of electrical wiring consisting of insulated conductive copper wire affixed by porcelain hardware and protected in vulnerable areas by insulated cloth sleeving. Widely used in North America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.]
n
Material that is arranged in the form of a labyrinth.
n
The edge of a high spot of land.
adj
(of part of a fingerprint) whorled
n
A mark imprinted by a nail, specifically one of the nail wounds of Jesus Christ after crucifixion.
n
(dialectal) A notch or small incision.
n
(uncountable) Synonym of stringing (“defect in 3D printing”)
adj
Furnished with a pike; ending in a point
n
One who or that which pinpoints.
n
The print or track of an animal.
n
A cylindrical bit whose oblique surface is cut into teeth.
adj
Edged with teeth, as a saw; serrated.
adj
having an edge or border marked with semicircles
n
(countable) A set of teeth or notches.
n
A notching, like that between the teeth of a saw, in the edge of anything.
n
A lateral blade; a blade protruding from the side of a weapon.
n
(obsolete) A stand to hold ink, pens, and other writing accessories; an inkstand.
adj
Being or relating to a kind of tattoo made without a machine, by dipping a needle into ink and poking dots into the skin.
n
(informal) A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
v
(intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
n
(informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
v
(computing) To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
n
The end of a pipe, etc., curved like a swan's neck.
n
A knife blade shape/style comprising well-differentiated front and longitudinal edges, somewhat reminiscent of a chisel but with an angled front allowing for an acute-angle point.
n
A little tooth or similar projection.
n
(carpentry) A tusk (projecting member).
n
Alternative form of vandyke [An edge with ornamental triangular points.]
n
(cosmetics) The inner rim of the eyelid, just behind the lash line; primarily used in reference to the application of eyeliner.
n
A descending V-shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.
adj
Having a thin wirelike thread of metal on the edge of a tool or blade as a result of sharpening.
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