[f. prec. sb. Cf. Ger. blatten in sense 1.]
1. trans. To take off the blades (senses 1, 3). dial.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 37. Bladyn herbys, or take away the bladys, detirso.
1818. Edin. Mag., Sept., 155 (Jam.). When she had gane out to blade some kail for the pat.
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss. (E. D. S.), To Blade mangles, to take the outside leaves off growing mangolds.
2. To provide with a (cutting) blade.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 37. Bladyn haftys, scindulo.
1801. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XII. 590. To blade the prow of the gondola of embassy.
3. intr. To put forth blades or leaves.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVIII. xvii. Otherwise the corn would never spindle, but blade still, and run all to leafe.
1633. P. Fletcher, Elisa, II. xxxv. Down falls her glorious leaf, and never more it bladeth.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., iv. Grass was blading out upon it.
† 4. To blade it: to fight. To blade it out: to fight a matter out with the sword. Obs.
1571. R. Edwards, Damon & P., in Dodsley (1780), I. 194. Rather than I wyll lose the spoyle, I wyll blade it out.
1589. Pappe w. Hatchet, 15. None dare blade it with thee.
