Verge

Quick meaning: Verge is a noun meaning A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

Meaning

A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

More Meanings

1. An edge or border.
2. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
3. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
4. (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
5. (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
6. (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
7. (obsolete) The phallus.

Example Sentences

Eating blowfish verges on insanity.

The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow.

But on the horizon's verge descried, Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.

Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theory[…]implies an absurdity.

Word Forms

• verges
• verging
• verged

Synonyms for verge

Depending on context, synonyms include berm, boulevard, common, easement, grassplot, hellstrip.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sceptre, threshold, wand, brink, scepter, eve.

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