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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Edge \Edge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edged}; p. pr & vb n. {Edging}.] 1. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. --Dryden. 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. --Pope. 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. --Hayward. 5. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as edging their chairs forwards. --Locke. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Edging \Edg"ing\, n. 1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. --Dryden. 2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything as of a piece of metal. {Edging machine}, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: edging n : anything placed on the edge to finish something such as a fringe on clothing or a rug
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