BLADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bladed mean? 

• BLADED (adjective)
  The adjective BLADED has 3 senses:

1. bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination

2. having a blade or blades; often used in combination

3. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade

  Familiarity information: BLADED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

he fought on, broken-bladed but unbowed

Pertainym:

blade (a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a blade or blades; often used in combination

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

narrow-bladed grass

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Pertainym:

blade (especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade

Context example:

bladed arsenopyrite

Similar:

thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)

Domain category:

crystallography (the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals)

 Context examples 

The paper is cut off in two snips with a short-bladed scissors.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He walked on tiptoe under the shadow of the wall, and when he reached the window he worked a long-bladed knife through the sash and pushed back the catch.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)