All that the blade lacked was a bullet's speed.

The blade is shiny and has a few scattered hairs, or lacks them entirely.

The radula has an elongated anterior section with serrations and a large exposed terminating cusp, a non-obvious waist, blade is either small or absent and has a short barb, and lacks a basal spur.

This was like hacking down a tree, except that his meager blade lacked the heft to do much damage.

Larger blades are made, but generally lack the stability of the smaller blades and do not make a perfectly flat surface.

This is supported by physical evidence that blades represented as "swords" lack a tang sufficient to wield them from one end, but significant enough for the item to be bound to the end of a shaft.