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Edge   /ɛdʒ/   Listen
noun
Edge  n.  
1.
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, (figuratively), That which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. "He which hath the sharp sword with two edges." "Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword."
2.
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. "Upon the edge of yonder coppice." "In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle." "Pursue even to the very edge of destruction."
3.
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. "The full edge of our indignation." "Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices."
4.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter."
Edge joint (Carp.), a joint formed by two edges making a corner.
Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill.
Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle.
Edge plane.
(a)
(Carp.) A plane for edging boards.
(b)
(Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles.
Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed.
Edge rail. (Railroad)
(a)
A rail set on edge; applied to a rail of more depth than width.
(b)
A guard rail by the side of the main rail at a switch.
Edge railway, a railway having the rails set on edge.
Edge stone, a curbstone.
Edge tool.
(a)
Any tool or instrument having a sharp edge intended for cutting.
(b)
A tool for forming or dressing an edge; an edging tool.
To be on edge,
(a)
to be eager, impatient, or anxious.
(b)
to be irritable or nervous.
on edge,
(a)
See to be on edge.
(b)
See to set the teeth on edge.
To set the teeth on edge,
(a)
to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. (archaic)
(b)
to produce a disagreeable or unpleasant sensation; to annoy or repel; often used of sounds; as, the screeching of of the subway train wheels sets my teeth on edge.


verb
Edge  v. t.  (past & past part. edged; pres. part. edging)  
1.
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. "To edge her champion's sword."
2.
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
3.
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. "Hills whose tops were edged with groves."
4.
To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. (Obs.) "By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged."
5.
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.


Edge  v. i.  
1.
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
2.
To sail close to the wind. "I must edge up on a point of wind."
To edge away or To edge off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.
To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... of the line. Accordingly, on August 30, the line beginning at Port sur Seille, east of the Moselle and extending to the west through St. Mihiel, thence north to a point opposite Verdun, was placed under my command. The American sector was afterward extended across the Meuse to the western edge of the Argonne Forest, and included the 2d Colonial French, which held the point of the salient, and the 17th French Corps, which occupied the ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... Right on the edge of the woods stood a splendid old beech tree with a high, firm trunk, under which the child had often sought quiet and shelter after running about in the sun. She had reached the tree now and was ...
— Cornelli • Johanna Spyri
... the light of God. Perhaps, perhaps, he thought, who knows but the first news he would bring to her would be the news of that communion? Certain it is that his hand moved vaguely over the blanket. It slipped over the edge of the bed and fell upon the bowed head of the sexton and remained there as if in benediction. And so the shadow deepened, and at last it was like unto nothing else known to the sons of men on earth, and the spirit leaped out of its clay tenement with the breath of the communion wine still ...
— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon
... who did it, was it? Then take that!" and seizing one of the tin candlesticks, Eric hurled it at Barker's head. Barker dodged, but the edge of it cut open his eyebrow as it whizzed by, and the ...
— Eric, or Little by Little • Frederic W. Farrar
... accident that was not clear. Mean as his fame put him, the Black Abbot had never been known to fall in all of his vicious life. On his right knee there was a great furrow, long as a man's finger and torn at one corner. It was scarcely the sort of wound that the edge of a stone would make ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post


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