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Selvedge   Listen
noun
Selvedge, Selvage  n.  
1.
The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
2.
The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.
3.
(Mining.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.





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"Selvedge" Quotes from Famous Books



... governed was spread over a vast territory, with an ocean front of fifteen hundred miles, and an inland frontier of three times that extent. Cultivation and permanent settlements formed but a sea-selvedge of this domain; for beyond the Alleghanies but comparatively few footsteps of civilized man had yet trodden. In the valleys of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, empires were budding; but where half ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing
... in tanned buck-skin, curiously fringed and ornamented with porcupine-quills richly dyed; their squaws (wives) being enveloped in fine Canadian blue broad cloth, their favourite costume; the crimson or other gaudy-coloured selvedge ...
— An Englishman's Travels in America - His Observations Of Life And Manners In The Free And Slave States • John Benwell


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