Edging
['edʒɪŋ] or ['ɛdʒɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug).
Typist: Preston--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edge
(n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
(n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
Checker: Sylvia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fringe, border.
Inputed by Errol
Examples
- Yes, said I, edging him a little away with my shoulder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- No, thank ye--it don't agree with me, said the little man, edging off. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Young gentlemen who go to college are rather more costly than that, Mrs. Garth innocently continued, pulling out the edging on a cap-border. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Another, SHE calls it tucker-edging. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Checker: Yale