1. a long slender prismatic flake manufactured by indirect percussion or pressure from a prepared core. (See macroblade and microblade.) At least twice as long as it is wide.
     

  2. Overall this term is used to describe a knife form. However, in lithic projectile terms, the blade is the distal (above the hafting or gripping area) portion of a projectile, knife, ax or other similar tool. Blade is also used to refer to large bifaced flaked artifacts.

    Source: LITHICS-Net, Glossary of Lithics Terminology
     
  3. Technically, a flake which is twice as long as it is wide.
    Source: Archaeology Glossary

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