flax-blade

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• Flax

  ·noun The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. ...

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• flax, native

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• Flax

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• quartz-blade

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• corn-blade

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• damascus blade

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• Earth flax

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• Flax-plant

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• flax-bush

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• flax-flower

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• flax-leaf

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• flax-lily

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• lily, flax

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• brother of the blade

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• knight of the blade

  A bully. ...

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• blade of an anchor

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• blade or wash of an oar

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