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| edging | |
| 1. n. Something that forms, defines or marks the edge. |  |
| The decorative edging around the door makes it easier to find in the dark. | |
| 2. n. (rock climbing) Technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold. | |
| 3. n. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. | |
| 4. n. The sexual technique of maintaining of a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm. | |
| edge | |
| 1. n. The boundary line of a surface. | |
| 2. n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. | |
| 3. n. An advantage. | |
| I have the edge on him. | |
| 4. n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. | |
| 5. n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge. | |
| The cup is right on the edge of the table. | |
| He is standing on the edge of a precipice. | |
| 6. n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. | |
| 7. n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time) | |
| in the edge of evening | |
| 8. n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally. | |
| 9. n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph. | |
| 10. n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging. | |
| 11. v. To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | |
| He edged the book across the table. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | |
| He edged away from her. | |
| 13. v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. | |
| 14. v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection. | |
| 15. v. To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger. | |
| 16. v. To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging. | |
| 17. v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. | |
| 18. v. (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. | |
| 19. v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm. | |
