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verb

Edge v. i.

To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Edge in" Quotes from Famous Books

... nerve in my body get up and howl. I reckon the weather has a good deal to do with the local temperament. The reason a New York man takes life so easily with all his rush is that his climate don't worry him. But a Boston man must be rasped the whole while by the edge in his air. That accounts for his sharpness; and when he's lived through twenty-five or thirty Boston Mays, he gets to thinking that Providence has some particular use for him, or he wouldn't have survived, and that makes ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... anything new from Boston?" demanded the chaplain. "I have been dying to ask the question these two hours—ever since dinner, in fact; but, somehow, Mr. Beekman, I have not been able to edge in an inquiry." ...

— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper

... palate, but the rough, hard shells exasperated him. They hurt his gums, so that he merely rolled them over in his mouth, sucked at them a few moments, then spat them out indignantly. His mother thereupon forsook the unsatisfactory limpets, and went prowling on toward the water's edge in search of more satisfying fare. As they left the limpets, a gaunt figure in gray homespuns, carrying a rifle, appeared on the crest of the cliffs above, caught sight of them, and hurriedly took cover behind ...

— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... about him, his peril continuing extreme. Nor was this his only danger. During the heat of the conflict a young Indian hurled a tomahawk several times at his head, out of mischief more than malice, but with such skilful aim that the keen weapon more than once grazed his skin and buried its edge in the tree beside his head. With still greater malice, a French officer of low grade levelled his musket at the prisoner's breast and attempted to discharge it. Fortunately for Putnam it missed fire. The prisoner ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... news had just been received from below, that the "Montana" had been burned to the water's edge in Guaymas harbor, and everything on board destroyed; the passengers had been saved with much difficulty, as the ...

— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes

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