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Edged   /ɛdʒd/   Listen
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.


adjective
edged  adj.  
1.
Having a specified kind of border or edge; as, a black-edged card; dried sweat left salt-edged patches. (Postpositional)
2.
Having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination; as, a dull-edged blade. Opposite of edgeless. (Postpositional)
3.
Having a biting effect, implying criticism; used of words or language; as, edged satire.
Synonyms: cutting, harsh, sharp, sharp-worded, stinging.





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"Edged" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave him first to wield A weighty axe, with truest temper steeled, And double-edged; the handle smooth and plain, Wrought of the clouded olive's easy grain; And next, a wedge to drive with sweepy sway; Then to the neighbouring forest led the way. On the lone island's utmost verge there stood Of poplars, pines, and firs, a lofty wood, Whose leafless summits ...
— Man on the Ocean - A Book about Boats and Ships • R.M. Ballantyne
... We edged up closer and closer, and when the haze lifted, came on a hot little fight in progress between a big ship and a small one, and crowded the rigging and bulwarks ...
— Carette of Sark • John Oxenham
... silk striped with gold, and a gold-coloured mantle lined with the palest blue. She led by the hand a very pretty little boy of ten or eleven years of age, attired in a velvet tunic of that light, bright shade of apple-green which our forefathers largely used. It was edged at the neck by a little white frill. He carried in his hand a black velvet cap, from which depended a long and very full red plume of ostrich feathers. His stockings were white silk, his boots red ...
— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt
... looked. So she lifted up her eyelids and glanced timidly at the cushioned pew in the chancel—there was no one but old Mr. Donnithorne rubbing his spectacles with his white handkerchief, and Miss Lydia opening the large gilt-edged prayer-book. The chill disappointment was too hard to bear. She felt herself turning pale, her lips trembling; she was ready to cry. Oh, what SHOULD she do? Everybody would know the reason; they would ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... Sorry edged away from her. "Well—I dunno as anything would be liable to happen," he said uncomfortably. "'Tain't likely him 'n' Brit'd both ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower


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