Associations to the word «Verge»

VERGE, noun. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

VERGE, noun. (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.

VERGE, noun. An edge or border.

VERGE, noun. (UK) (Australia) (New Zealand) The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.

VERGE, noun. (figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.

VERGE, noun. (obsolete) The phallus.

VERGE, noun. (zoology) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.

VERGE, noun. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.

VERGE, noun. A circumference; a circle; a ring.

VERGE, noun. (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

VERGE, noun. (architecture) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.

VERGE, noun. (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

VERGE, verb. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.

VERGE ON, verb. (transitive) (idiomatic) To approach or come close to something; to border or be on the edge of something.

VERGE STAFF, noun. (clock making) The metal bar with two pallets that drive the crown wheel in a verge escapement.

VERGE STAFF, noun. (nautical) A flag pole that protrudes from a low deck off the back of a ship.

VERGE STAFFS, noun. Plural of verge staff

VERGE, noun. A region marking a boundary.

VERGE, noun. The limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy".

VERGE, noun. A ceremonial or emblematic staff.

VERGE, noun. A grass border along a road.

VERGE, verb. Border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal".