Blade, the Glossary
A blade is the sharp, cutting portion of a tool, weapon, or machine, specifically designed to puncture, chop, slice, or scrape surfaces or materials.[1]
Table of Contents
85 relations: Abrasion (mechanical), Area, Athame, Ballistic knife, Bowie knife, Bread knife, Bronze, Bronze Age, Ceramic, Ceramic knife, Chisel, Clip point, Colichemarde, Cooking, Copper, Dagger, Differential heat treatment, Drop point, Dusack, Elastic modulus, Ewart Oakeshott, Exsanguination, Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife, Falchion, Fencing, Flame-bladed sword, Flint, Foil (fencing), Force, Forging, Fuller (groove), Grader, Hardness, Hattusa, Heat treating, Historical European martial arts, Hittites, I-beam, Ink eraser, Inlay, Inuktitut, Iron, Iron Age, Karambit, Kenjutsu, Khopesh, Kris, Kristian Kristiansen (archaeologist), Kukri, Leather, ... Expand index (35 more) »
Abrasion (mechanical)
Abrasion is the process of scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, or rubbing away.
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Area
Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface.
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Athame
An athame or athamé is a ceremonial blade, generally with a black handle.
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Ballistic knife
A ballistic knife is a knife with a detachable blade that can be ejected to a distance of several meters/yards by pressing a trigger or operating a lever or switch on the handle. Blade and ballistic knife are blade weapons.
Bowie knife
A Bowie knife is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by Rezin Bowie in the early 19th century for his brother James Bowie, who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight. Blade and Bowie knife are blade weapons.
Bread knife
Bread knives are used for cutting bread and are one of many kitchen knives used by cooks.
Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
Ceramic knife
A ceramic knife is a knife with a ceramic blade typically made from zirconium dioxide (ZrO2; also known as zirconia), rather than the steel used for most knives.
Chisel
A chisel is a wedged hand tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge on the end of its blade, for carving or cutting a hard material (e.g. wood, stone, or metal).
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Clip point
The clip point is one of the three most common shapes for the blade of a knife (the others being the drop point and the spear point).
Colichemarde
Colichemarde is a type of small sword (often written "smallsword") blade that was popular from the late 17th to the mid-18th century.
Cooking
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe.
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Dagger
A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a cutting or thrusting weapon. Blade and dagger are blade weapons.
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Differential heat treatment
Differential heat treatment (also called selective heat treatment or local heat treatment) is a technique used during heat treating of steel to harden or soften certain areas of an object, creating a difference in hardness between these areas.
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Drop point
Drop point is a style of knife blade that slopes on the spine of the blade from the handle of the knife to the tip of the blade.
Dusack
A dusack (also dusägge and variants, from Czech tesák "cleaver; hunting sword", lit. "fang") is a single-edged sword of the cutlass or sabre type, in use as a side arm in Germany and the Habsburg monarchy during the 16th to 17th centuries, as well as a practice weapon based on this weapon used in early modern German fencing.
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Elastic modulus
An elastic modulus (also known as modulus of elasticity) is the unit of measurement of an object's or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e., non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it.
Ewart Oakeshott
Ronald Ewart Oakeshott (25 May 1916 – 30 September 2002) was a British illustrator, collector, and amateur historian who wrote prodigiously on medieval arms and armour.
Exsanguination
Exsanguination is the loss of blood, usually leading to death.
Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife
The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip.
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Falchion
A falchion (Old French: fauchon; Latin: falx, "sickle") is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin.
Fencing
Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting.
Flame-bladed sword
A flame-bladed sword or wave-bladed sword has a characteristically undulating style of blade.
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Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.
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Foil (fencing)
A foil is one of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing.
Force
A force is an influence that can cause an object to change its velocity, i.e., to accelerate, meaning a change in speed or direction, unless counterbalanced by other forces.
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Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of metal using localized compressive forces.
Fuller (groove)
A fuller is a rounded or beveled longitudinal groove or slot along the flat side of a blade (e.g., a sword, knife, or bayonet) that serves to both lighten and stiffen the blade, when considering its reduced weight. Blade and fuller (groove) are blade weapons.
Grader
A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader, motor grader, or simply blade, is a form of heavy equipment with a long blade used to create a flat surface during grading.
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Hardness
In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by pressing or abrasion.
Hattusa
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.
Heat treating
Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material.
Historical European martial arts
Historical European martial arts (HEMA) are martial arts of European origin, particularly using arts formerly practised, but having since died out or evolved into very different forms.
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Hittites
The Hittites were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia.
I-beam
An I-beam is any of various structural members with an or -shaped cross-section.
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Ink eraser
An ink eraser is an instrument used to scrape away or chemically bleach ink from a writing surface.
Inlay
Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often colored materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix.
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Inuktitut
Inuktitut (syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from, 'person' + -titut, 'like', 'in the manner of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.
Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Karambit
The karambit or kerambit (as used in Indonesian), kurambik or karambiak (both from the Minangkabau language) is a small Indonesian curved knife resembling a claw, associated with the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra. Blade and karambit are blade weapons.
Kenjutsu
is an umbrella term for all (ko-budō) schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration.
Khopesh
The khopesh (ḫpš; also vocalized khepesh) is an Egyptian sickle-shaped sword that developed from battle axes.
Kris
The kris or keris is a Javanese asymmetrical dagger with a distinctive blade-patterning achieved through alternating laminations of iron and nickelous iron (pamor). The kris is famous for its distinctive wavy blade, although many have straight blades as well, and is one of the weapons commonly used in the pencak silat martial art native to Indonesia. Blade and kris are blade weapons.
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Kristian Kristiansen (archaeologist)
Kristian Kristiansen (born 21 August 1948) is a Danish archaeologist known for his contributions to the study of Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies and archaeological theory.
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Kukri
The kukri or khukuri (खुकुरी) is a type of short sword with a distinct recurve in its blade that originated in the Indian subcontinent. Blade and kukri are blade weapons.
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Leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.
List of premodern combat weapons
This is a list of historical pre-modern weapons grouped according to their uses, with rough classes set aside for very similar weapons.
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Machine
A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.
Obsidian
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.
Pattern welding
Pattern welding is the practice in sword and knife making of forming a blade of several metal pieces of differing composition that are forge-welded together and twisted and manipulated to form a pattern. Blade and pattern welding are blade weapons.
Penknife
Penknife, or pen knife, is a small folding knife.
Pesh-kabz
The pesh-kabz or peshkabz (پیش قبض, पेश क़ब्ज़) is a type of Indo-Persian knife designed to penetrate mail armour and other types of armour.
Pizza
Pizza is an Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
Quenching
In materials science, quenching is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, gas, oil, polymer, air, or other fluids to obtain certain material properties.
Rapier
A rapier or espada ropera is a type of sword originally used in Renaissance Spain.
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Sabre
A sabre (French: ˈsabʁ, or saber in American English) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods. Blade and sabre are blade weapons.
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Saw
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge used to cut through material.
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Sawdust
Sawdust (or wood dust) is a by-product or waste product of woodworking operations such as sawing, sanding, milling and routing.
Serrated blade
A serrated blade has a toothlike rather than a plain edge, and is used on saws and on some knives and scissors. Blade and serrated blade are cutting tools.
Serration
Serration is a saw-like appearance or a row of sharp or tooth-like projections. Blade and Serration are cutting tools.
Skiving (leathercraft)
Skiving is the process used in leather crafting to reduce the thickness of leather, especially in areas that are to be bent or folded and which must be pliable without becoming weakened.
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Small sword
The small sword or smallsword (also court sword, Gaelic: claidheamh beag or claybeg, French: épée de cour, lit. “Sword of the court”) is a light one-handed sword designed for thrusting which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier (espada ropera) of the late Renaissance.
Spear
A spear is a polearm consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
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Stiletto
A stiletto (plural stilettos) is a specialized dagger with a long slender blade and needle-like point, primarily intended as a thrusting and stabbing weapon. Blade and stiletto are blade weapons.
Straight razor
A straight razor is a razor with a blade that can fold into its handle.
Swarf
Swarf, also known as chips or by other process-specific names (such as turnings, filings, or shavings), are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are the debris or waste resulting from machining, woodworking, or similar subtractive (material-removing) manufacturing processes.
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Sword
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Blade and sword are blade weapons.
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Talwar
The talwar, also spelled talwaar and tulwar, is a type of curved sword or sabre from the Indian subcontinent.
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Tantō
A is a traditionally made Japanese knife that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Blade and Tantō are blade weapons.
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Tarḫunz
Tarḫunz (stem: Tarḫunt-) was the weather god and chief god of the Luwians, a people of Bronze Age and early Iron Age Anatolia.
A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task.
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Toughness
In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing.
Tudhaliya
Tudḫaliya is the name of several Hittite kings or royals.
Ulfberht swords
The Ulfberht swords are a group of about 170 medieval swords found primarily in Northern Europe, dated to the 9th to 11th centuries, with blades inlaid with the inscription +VLFBERH+T or +VLFBERHT+.
Ulu
An ulu (ᐅᓗ; plural: uluit; sometimes referred to as 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women.
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Weapon
A weapon, arm, or armament is any implement or device that is used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill.
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Work hardening
Work hardening, also known as strain hardening, is the process by which a material's load-bearing capacity (strength) increases during plastic (permanent) deformation.
Yield (engineering)
In materials science and engineering, the yield point is the point on a stress-strain curve that indicates the limit of elastic behavior and the beginning of plastic behavior.
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Zirconium dioxide
Zirconium dioxide, sometimes known as zirconia (not to be confused with zircon), is a white crystalline oxide of zirconium.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade
Also known as Bent blade, Blade inscription, Blades, Chop blade, Cutting blade with bend, Hawkbill, Knife blade, Sheepsfoot, Sheepsfoot knife, Sword blade, Sword blades.
, List of premodern combat weapons, Machine, Obsidian, Pattern welding, Penknife, Pesh-kabz, Pizza, Pressure, Quenching, Rapier, Sabre, Saw, Sawdust, Serrated blade, Serration, Skiving (leathercraft), Small sword, Spear, Steel, Stiletto, Straight razor, Swarf, Sword, Talwar, Tantō, Tarḫunz, Tool, Toughness, Tudhaliya, Ulfberht swords, Ulu, Weapon, Work hardening, Yield (engineering), Zirconium dioxide.