Word Meaning

edged definition and meaning

v. t. The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
v. t. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
v. t. Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
v. t. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
v. t. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
v. t. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
v. t. To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
v. t. To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
v. t. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
v. i. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
v. i. To sail close to the wind.
imp. & p. p. of Edge

Crossword clues for edged

- Border
- Brink
- Creep
- Creep along like a bit of a hedgehog
- Creep with fringe
- Excited, on the ... of one’s seat
- Inch (along)
- Inch (towards)
- Limit
- Margin
- Marginal advantage?
- Microsoft browser
- Move furtively
- Move slowly
- Nervous, on ...
- Odd Eddy goes to the border
- Outer border
- Perimeter
- Periphery
- Rim
- Sharpened side of a blade
- Slight advantage
- Slip by
- Tense people are on this border
- The outside limit of an object
- Trim front and back off hedges, but leave side
- Trim hedge margin
- Verge
- Crept (along)
- Framed
- Inched (toward)
- Moved gradually
- Moved sideways
- Moved slowly when surrounded?
- Outlined
- Rimmed
- Sharpened
- Snicked a delivery