Meaning of Kaiser blade | Babel Free

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Synonym of sling blade.

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“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.”

“No one is expected to speak, so the grass falls audibly with the sound of a heavy drunken whisper. The man who does not have the jimmy blade is stuck with the kaiser blade. The kaiser is heavier, the handle more like an axe's than the ...”

“six days a week, starting on the highest ground and working their way downward foot by foot, cutting with saws and axes and kaiser blades—long-handled machetes—and then dynamiting and burning out the stumps.”

“At the county work farm, the prisoners were put in striped uniforms and made to cut roadside grass with kaiser blades. If you wanted to go to the bathroom, you told the sarge, “Taking a leak here, Shot.” One day out in the fields, the Shot ...”

“"Something thin and strong." Hollis glared at him. "Hurry up," Connolly said. Hollis disappeared around the corner. In a few minutes, he returned with a kaiser blade, a curved blade about a foot long with a solid wooden handle […]”

“... with a kaiser blade. Fifty cents a day.”

“Looking closer, he realized it was a kaiser blade that he assumed was left by a groundskeeper, possibly even the Slovak himself, used to thin out some of the overgrowth. The half-moon-like cutting edge was razor sharp on one side, dull on [the other].”

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