Edging

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  • noun. Something that forms or serves as an edge or border.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. That which is added on the border or which forms the edge, as lace, fringe, or braid added to a garment for ornament; specifically, narrow lace or embroidery especially made for trimming frills and parts of dress.
  • noun. A border; a skirting; specifically, in horticulture, a row of plants set along the border of a flower-bed: as, an edging of box.
  • noun. In bookbinding: The art of preparing the uncut or folded leaves of a book by shaving or trimming, adapting them to receive gold, marbling, or color, and burnishing.
  • noun. The decorating of the edges of a book by marbling or coloring.
  • noun. In carpentry, the evening of the edges of ribs and rafters to make them range together.
  • noun. In photography, a coat of albumen, gelatin, or india-rubber along the edges of a collodion-covered dry-plate; a protection to the film during development. Generally the whole surface of the plate is given a substratum for the collodion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden.
  • noun. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
  • noun. a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of edge.
  • noun. Something that forms, defines or marks the edge.
  • noun. Technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.
  • noun. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
  • noun. To ability to control or delay one's orgasm
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)