verge

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
2. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
3. An edge or border.
4. An edge or border.
5. An edge or border.
6. (obsolete) The phallus.
7. (obsolete) The phallus.
8. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
9. A circumference; a circle; a ring.
10. The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
11. The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
12. The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

Verb

1. To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.

Synonyms

edge

brink

border

brim

rim

margin

wand

berm

shoulder

extremity

tend

threshold

tip

trend

approach

end

🔚

sceptre

incline

side

rod

baton

cant

scepter

staff

fringe

limb

proximity

ledge

verge of a road

lip

imminent

inflect

ingot

just about

kerb

lean

limbus

limit

list

mace

mandrel

mandril

marge

neb

neighbourhood

outskirts

path

🛣️

peak

perch

peripherals

plain

point

pole

porch

range

rolling out

roll-out

shaft

shelve

skirt

slant

slope

spread

stick

stretch

stretching

tilt

truncheon

turn

veer

vicinity

walking stick

sound like

touch at

verge on

edge water

arris

gableboard

vergeboard

fringe water

shoulder of road

side of the road

central spindle

abutment

margin, rand, brim, border

almost

approximate

arbor

bandy

bank

🏦

bar

bargeboard

bound

boundary

brow

butt

careen

conjugate

crook

cusp

decline

drub

elongating

elongation

environs

extend

extension

ferule

foot

🦶

frontier

hang up

hard shoulder

heel

hem

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/vɜːd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (English)

Borrowed from Middle French verge (“rod or wand of office”), hence "scope, territory dominated", from Latin virga (“shoot, rod stick”), of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as Anglo-Norman dedeinz la verge), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area." Doublet of virga.