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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



... semicircular arches, and sometimes the head is shaped in the form of a triangle. The jambs are square-edged, the stone of the arch is plain, and a hood or arch of ribwork projecting from the surface of the wall surrounds the doorway. Belfry windows have two semicircular-headed lights divided by a baluster shaft, i.e. a column resembling a turned-wood ...
— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield
... to the moat platform the huge form of the master armourer himself. He stood waiting his master's pleasure, with a knife which he had been sharpening in his hand. It was a curious weapon, long, thin, and narrow in the blade, which was double-edged and ground fine as a razor ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... robes of spotless white. Their eyes were bedimmed with weeping, and tears streamed down their cheeks as they sobbed aloud with irrepressible emotion. Next to the women stood a group of Pharisees—Jews from Poland and Germany. * * * The old hoary-headed men generally wore velvet caps edged with fur, long love-locks or ringlets dangling on their thin cheeks, and their outer robes presented a striking contrast of gaudy colors. Beyond stood a group of Spanish Jews. * * * Besides these there are Jews from every quarter of the world, who had wandered back ...
— A Trip Abroad • Don Carlos Janes
... two-edged sword. The word is of Italian origin and first came into use in the sixteenth century. In an adaptation of a thirteenth-century Chanson it is out of place, as ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... narrative. We have not the least doubt that Bunyan had in view some stout old Great-heart of Naseby and Worcester, who prayed with his men before he drilled them, who knew the spiritual state of every dragoon in his troop, and who, with the praises of God in his mouth, and a two-edged sword in his hand, had turned to flight, on many fields of battle, the swearing, drunken bravoes of ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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