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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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Etymology of 'Edge in'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Edge in" Quotes from Famous Books

... pieces may be shaped first. The drawing shows the form and the dimensions. Make use of a face edge in laying out the mortises in the base pieces for the uprights, before these face edges are removed to make the ...

— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 3 • H. H. Windsor

... and with each year Wildrose grew taller and more beautiful, and she lived happily in her nest and never wanted to go out of it, only standing at the edge in the sunset, and looking upon the beautiful world. For company she had all the birds in the forest, who came and talked to her, and for playthings the strange flowers which they brought her from far, and the butterflies which danced with her. And so the ...

— The Crimson Fairy Book • Various

... built, he had devised a plan for dealing with the letters by means of independent matrices. These matrices were pieces of brass measuring 1-1/4 inches by 3/4 of an inch and of the necessary thickness to accommodate the character, which it bore upon its edge in intaglio; they were stored in the newly devised machine in vertical copper tubes, from the bases of which they were drawn, as required, by a mechanism actuated by finger keys, caught by the "ears" as they dropped upon a miniature railway, and by a blast of ...

— The Building of a Book • Various

... essential points. Why, it was only two or three days ago that the Hon. Matt broke in on Old Hickory and gave him an earful about his latest discovery in the golf line. I'd heard part of it, too, while I was stickin' around waitin' to edge in with some papers ...

— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford

... track, evidently that made by a crocodile in coming and going from the river. He paused for a moment, shuddering as he thought of his danger; then drawing the dirk, ready for a blow at the monster's eyes, should he encounter one, he crawled on, reached the water's edge in safety, parting the canes to peer up and down the river in search ...

— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn

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