Crossword clues for edging
edging
- Trim, e.g
- Job for a seamstress
- Curtain detail
- The rough vis-Г -vis a green
- Fringe
- Decorative border
- Landscaping task
- Advance slowly, as if by inches
- Lie adjacent to another
- The rough vis-à-vis a green
- Frame
- Border, as of lace
- Moving towards border
- Cockney building boundary round field, moving slowly?
- Neatening piece of frayed gingham?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Edge \Edge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Edged; p. pr. & vb. n. Edging.]
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To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
To edge her champion's sword.
--Dryden. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
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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.
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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.
--Hayward. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
--Locke.
Edging \Edg"ing\, n.
That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
--Dryden.-
The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "the putting of a border," verbal noun from edge (v.). Meaning "a border, that which is added to form an edge" is from 1660s; that of "the trimming of lawn edges" is from 1858.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that forms, defines or marks the edge. 2 (context rock climbing English) Technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold. 3 The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. vb. (present participle of edge English)
WordNet
n. border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)
Wikipedia
Edging may refer to:
- Using an edger gardening tool
- Edging (climbing), a climbing technique
- Edging, a form of orgasm control
- Edging (landscaping), in landscape and garden design, a material to divide different surfaces
- Edging (forging), an open-die forging process that concentrates material for further processing
Usage examples of "edging".
Lily Bede stood a foot behind him, hand on hips, spots of carnelian edging each cheekbone.
The massive fleet approached with short blinks, scouting the way, line upon line of death edging ever closer.
Following John Cullum up Route 5 with Roland sitting silently beside him, then turning to follow Cullum onto the Dimity Road, Eddie felt his temper edging up into the red zone.
John Cullum up Route 5 with Roland sitting silently beside him, then turning to follow Cullum onto the Dimity Road, Eddie felt his temper edging up into the red zone.
Not so impossible, if the damned horse would quit edging forward on him.
Buttonhole edging with darned centre, centre filled with strands of wool caught down at intervals with double back stitch.
Even as he channeled more chaos beneath the tower, he also sought a stream of water, easing it edging from the levels below the rock toward the chaos he built, forcing them together, more and more tightly.
Caucasian hawks, Babylonian sakers, German gerfalcons, and pilgrim falcons captured on the cliffs edging the cold seas, in distant lands.
And now Chief Huerta was the night, a black shadow among shadows, edging silently under the fence through the runoff gully.
Jeter and Devin led Nicky Kix and his muscular entourage to their joint office, pushing aside plush Terrapin toys, edging past Terrapin arcade video games and cardboard movie-lobby standees.
And Loyse, edging away from him along the wall, read his reason in his eyes.
In the middle of the edging of hir dressing, vpon the highest parte ouer the middest of hir forhead hoong a rare iewell.
In all that land I saw no sign of movement, or of any purposeful plumes of dust of the kind that would mark the passage of a bike and I was glad, for the air had about it an opalesque quality, a shimmering density that I had never seen before, though some part of me knew it was an effect of silver, edging into existence.
Then he noticed that, eyes still on Bear, the little clinician, Seism, was edging toward the console.
She found a slab of marble that looked like it weighed about half a tonne, and began edging sideways towards it.