kaiser blade
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of Kaiser blade (“sling blade”).
Example Sentences
- "He let the Kaiser blade slip down into his palm. It felt good there, the well worn handle intimately comfortable in his calloused hand. His blood tricked down the haft and flowed across the slightly curved, upturned blade."
- "On the flat the planting was done in narrow lanes cut through the dense brush, weeds, and vines with "Kaiser" blades (large ditch-bank blades or brush hooks). On the other two sites the entire planting area was cleared with Kaiser blades after the trees were removed."
- "... a shirt tail in a wind; and the guards ape-like body toppled backward and lay anesthetized and unconscious on the floor. The Choctaw raised his unchained right heel and hacked it down across the guards chest, striking like a Kaiser blade, ..."
- "What had been a trusty sluff job was now as onerous as swinging a Kaiser blade or shoveling out ditches. As soon as he'd hauled the buckets back to the cage truck it was time to go again."
- "I picked up a kaiser blade that was a layin' there by the screen door, some folks calls it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. It's just a long handle like a^([sic]) axe handle with a long blade on it that's shaped kind of like a banana. Sharp on one edge and dull on the other."
- "A tool known in Mississippi and vicinity as a kaiser blade gained national attention in Billy Bob Thornton's 1996 movie Sling Blade. That movie was titled after the tool's better-known name."
Usage
- American usage