verge

• a region marking a boundary
• the limit beyond which something happens or changes
• The penis
• a ceremonial or emblematic staff
• To tend downward
• a grass border along a road
• border on
• A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority
• The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge
• The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king´s household had special jurisdiction
• A virgate
• A border, limit, or boundary of a space
• A circumference
• The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft
• The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof
• The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement
• The edge or outside of a bed or border
• A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre
• The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc
• To border upon
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Guadeloupe

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