1. A maker of blades; a blade-smith.
1598. Stow, Surv., xxviii. (1603), 247. Ordinances … made betwixt the Bladers, and the other Cutlers.
1766. Entick, London, IV. 357. Smiths, forgers of blades, and therefore called bladers.
2. The user of a blade; a swordsman.
1572. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 398. That the sanctuaries should be a safegarde … not to bladers and cutters.
3. Comb., as three-blader = three-bladed (knife).
1870. Daily News, 12 July, 5/4. Fancy the embarrassment of riches in having to cut anything with a twenty blader.
