Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sienese sophisticate would also have connected the well visible in the courtyard with the sacrament of baptism, and the cloister itself with the Earthly Paradise. For a modern viewer it is the exquisitely ordered space that counts, those intricacies of dull green, tan and gold, with the black blade of the saint's cappa sharply anchoring them...
PERHAPS everyone's favorite Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado is about a young man who is so in love with a woman that he almost loses his head over her--to the blade of the Lord High Executioner...
crab: put the blade in the water at other than a 90 degree angle. This causes the blade to dive into the water which in turn destroys the rower's rhythm and at worse flips him or her out of the shell...
scull: to row with two blades. This is as opposed to sweeping, which is with one blade per person. Sculling can be an individual sport. A shell with just one sculler is called a single...
sweep: to row with only one blade...