verge
IPA: vˈɝdʒ
noun
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- (UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- An edge or border.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- (figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- (obsolete) The phallus.
- (zoology) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
- To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
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Examples of "verge" in Sentences
- Gex was on the verge of insanity.
- He stood on the verge of the road.
- It is on the verge of gross untruth.
- The palace today is on the verge of oblivion.
- His domicile planet was at the verge of obliteration.
- At the time, the league was on the verge of collapsing.
- At the time, the country was on the verge of war with Britain.
- The composition of the commission is on the verge of a big change.
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