edge

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They couldn't get quite as near it as usual, for the edge was almost at the Ducks' house now, and not so very far from the house of the White Wyandottes, who seemed to think the end of the world had come, and looked very sad with their draggled feathers For a little while the boys threw sticks in the water.

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  1. noun A thin, sharpened side, as of the blade of a cutting instrument.
  2. noun The degree of sharpness of a cutting blade.
  3. noun A penetrating, incisive quality: "His simplicity sets off the satire, and gives it a finer edge” (William Hazlitt).
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  • But at the edge was a single rubbed spot, as if something had spilled there and been wiped hard. —  Galaxy, October, 1950 - Vol.1 No.1
  • ‘Blood tests.’ Pushing him to the edge was the height of folly. —  PurchasedByTheBillionaire
  • The rocks close to the edge were always green and slick, but nowhere else was the water so cool and so fresh, even when the rain was falling. —  Hobb, Robin - The Soldier Son 01 - Shaman's Crossing (v2.0)
  • —V.R.' Engraved round the edge are the following words Presented to John Ellerthorpe in Acknowledgment of his repeated Acts of Gallantry in Saving Life . —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Hero of the Humber; or The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe, by Henry Woodcock.
  • He would assure you that folding along the edge is an absurd idea—the two squares would surely rip apart. —  StrangeHorizons,September2002
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side ·  top ·  corner ·  center ·  portion ·  line ·  shadow ·  shape ·  rim ·  foot ·  base ·  slope

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edge:   edges ·  edged ·  edging
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English egge, from Old English ecg; see ak- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English egge, from Anglo-Saxon ecg, an edge, poetical a sword, = Old Saxon eggia = OFries. eg, ig, Friesic ig = Dutch egge = Middle Low German egge = Old High German ekka, edge, point, Middle High German ecke, egge, German eck, ecke, edge, corner, = Icelandic egg = Swedish egg = Danish egg = Gothic (Moesogothic) *agja (not found) = Latin acies, a sharp edge or point, front of an army (‘edge of battle’), akin to acer, sharp (later ult. English eager), acus, a needle, etc., to Greek ἀκίς, ἀκή, a point, to Sanskrit açri, an edge, corner, angle, and to English awn, ail, ear, q. v.
  2. from Middle English eggen, put an edge on, sharpen (only in participial adjective egged, from Anglo-Saxon ecged, participial adjective, only in comp. twiecged, two-edged, scearp-ecged, sharp-edged), also set on edge, intransitive be set on edge, as the teeth, also edge on, egg, incite (in this sense from Scandinavian) (= OFries. eggja, fight, = Icelandic eggja = Swedish egga = Danish egge, incite), from Anglo-Saxon ecg, edge: see edge, n. See also egg.
 

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