After Shung hears of this, he sends the Sleestaks after " Ironface "' s " magic blade " ( his sword ).

He eventually breaks her hold upon him by using the magic of the Sword of Truth and turning the blade white.

Seeking shelter with a nearby tribe, Corban is shunned for his pale skin and dark, coarse hair, and feared for his strange powers to make fire and cut through the toughest skins with his magic blade.

He wrote on a wide variety of magical subjects, including card tricks, mentalism, escapes, razor blade swallowing, sightless vision, billiard ball manipulation, silk magic, second sight acts, publicity, and showmanship.

Chain has a Cyframe in the form of jet pack with a large blade attached, called Flamingo, and uses fire-based magic attacks.

The blade, like most magic in the series, is focused on need.

There he plans to forge the Darksword, a blade capable of absorbing magic.

Vilherm's blade is chipped as Felippe strikes Krassel, and seeing that he cannot defeat the dragon halfling without a magic sword, flees.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Between bouts, Laertes attacks and pierces Hamlet with his poisoned blade ; in the ensuing scuffle, Hamlet is able to use Laertes's own poisoned sword against him.

A blade longer than one shaku but less than two is considered a shōtō ( short sword ).

A blade longer than two shaku is considered a daitō, or long sword.

To qualify as a daitō the sword must have a blade longer than 2 shaku ( approximately 24 inches or 60 centimeters ) in a straight line.

Being so, if the sword / blade were in a more vertical position, it would be cumbersome, and awkward to draw.

The curved sword is a far more efficient weapon when wielded by a warrior on horseback where the curve of the blade adds considerably to the downward force of a cutting action.

This was the standard form of carrying the sword for centuries, and would eventually be displaced by the katana style where the blade was worn thrust through the belt, edge up.

The signature on the tang ( nakago ) of the blade was inscribed in such a way that it would always be on the outside of the sword when worn.

When worn with full armour, the tachi would be accompanied by a shorter blade in the form known as koshigatana (" waist sword "); a type of short sword with no hand-guard ( tsuba ) and where the hilt and scabbard meet to form the style of mounting called an aikuchi (" meeting mouth ").

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.

The blade was around 18 inches ( 55 cm ) long, on the end of a pole 6 or 7 feet ( 180 – 210 cm ) long However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, both the blade and shaft varying in length.

A svärdstav ( literally sword-staff ) is a Swedish medieval polearm that consists of a two-edged sword blade attached to a 2 metre staff.

The illustrations sometimes show a socket mount and reinforcing langets being used, but sometimes they are missing ; it is possible this weapon was sometimes manufactured by simply attaching an old sword blade onto a long pole on its tang, not unlike the naginata.

It may have been manufactured using a remounted sword blade.

In the most narrow sense, a sword consists of a straight blade with two edges and a hilt.

The hilt, either from organic materials or bronze ( the latter often highly decorated with spiral patterns, for example ), at first simply allowed a firm grip and prevented the hand from slipping onto the blade when executing a thrust or the sword slipping out of the hand in a cut.

Amongst the Warring States period swords, some unique technologies were used, such as casting high tin edges over softer, lower tin cores, or the application of diamond shaped patterns on the blade ( see sword of Goujian ).

However the native types of blade known as kris, parang, klewang and golok are popular to be used as weapon rather than sword.

Some examples of canes — those known as sword canes or swordsticks — incorporate a concealed blade.

The sword consists of the blade and the hilt.

For example, the blade of an ice skate, exerting pressure on the ice, melts a thin layer, providing lubrication between the ice and the blade.

It's good for cutting all the planking because it cuts with a bit-like blade at high rpm and does not chatter the plywood like a saber saw.

A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, " he would make your head look like the blade of a knife.

The blade holder may either retract or fold into the handle, much like a folding-blade pocketknife.

There is no set template for what such a vehicle will look like, yet likely features include a large dozer blade or mine ploughs, a large calibre demolition cannon, augers, winches, excavator arms and cranes or lifting booms.

An axe kick, also known as a hammer kick or stretch kick, is characterized by a straightened leg descending onto an opponent like the blade of an axe.

Some sawists play standing, either with the handle between the knees and the blade sticking out in front of them, or with the handle under the chin ( like a violin ).

A blade ground from such a blank will show a grain much like an object cut from a block of wood, with similar random variations in pattern.

The elephant warrior used the Ngaw like a blade from atop an elephant or horse during battle.

This steel edge allows the board to grab or ' dig in ' to hard snow and ice ( like the blade of an ice skate ), and also protects the boards internal structure.

The top of the mouth, the labrum, has developed into a channeled blade the length of the proboscis, with a cross-section like an inverted " U ".

These have a falchion-like blade mounted on a wooden haft long, sometimes ending in a curve like an umbrella.

More rounded profiles provided lower rolling resistance due to the greater " belly " or tire that increased resilience ( or " rebound "); and these wheels were perceived as having better grip and being more stable ( less like an ice blade ), but were heavier than elliptical-profiled wheels and were often used in downhill racing ( such as the Hyper Downhill racing wheels ) and in recreational skates.

The blade of an adze is set at right angles to the tool's shaft ( like a hoe or plane ), unlike the blade of an axe which is set in line with the shaft.

Tools like scissors and electric razors, which cut the hair between two blades instead of between blade and skin, have often been considered more acceptable.

* Karambit: Small blade shaped like a tiger claw

Buñuel told Dalí at a restaurant one day about a dream in which a cloud sliced the moon in half " like a razor blade slicing through an eye ".

He also, as the political circumstances of the time dictated, projected himself as a loyal stalwart of the then ruling single party, KANU. In the months before multiparty politics were introduced in 1992, he infamously declared that agitating for multi party democracy and trying to dislodge KANU from power was like " trying to cut down a fig tree with a razor blade ".

The canines were long, thin and flattened from side to side but broad from front to back like the blade of a knife, as in Homotherium.

People like Diego Velázquez longed for the royal favour that allowed to put on their clothes the red cross of St James ( a cross fleury fitchy, with lower part fashioned as the blade of a sword.

The most well known chant is probably " Hark now here, the Wednesday sing, United ran away, and we will fight forever more, because of Boxing day ", a song about the 1979 Boxing Day Massacre, or " I've never felt more like singing the blues, when Wednesday win, United lose, oh Wednesday, you've got me singing the blues – Wack a blade – Wack a blade – Wack a blade ", sung on days when Wednesday have won their game, and United have lost theirs.