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Edging

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Something that forms or serves as an edge or border.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of edge.

n. Something that forms, defines or marks the edge.

n. Technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.

n. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

n. To ability to control or delay one's orgasm

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.

n. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. That which is added on the border or which forms the edge, as lace, fringe, or braid added to a garment for ornament; specifically, narrow lace or embroidery especially made for trimming frills and parts of dress.

n. A border; a skirting; specifically, in horticulture, a row of plants set along the border of a flower-bed: as, an edging of box.

n. In bookbinding: The art of preparing the uncut or folded leaves of a book by shaving or trimming, adapting them to receive gold, marbling, or color, and burnishing.

n. The decorating of the edges of a book by marbling or coloring.

n. In carpentry, the evening of the edges of ribs and rafters to make them range together.

n. In photography, a coat of albumen, gelatin, or india-rubber along the edges of a collodion-covered dry-plate; a protection to the film during development. Generally the whole surface of the plate is given a substratum for the collodion.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)

Word Usage

"Polling suggests Rubio is a clear favorite and, even if Clinton had been successful in edging Meek from the race, it's hard to imagine Crist coalescing enough of the vote at this late stage to make a run at the Republican."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

border

Hyponym

orphrey fringe

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

edge skirt welt welting frill

Verb Stem

edge

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

alleging dredging fledging hedging pledging