verge

Meanings

Plural: verges

Noun

• a region marking a boundary
• the limit beyond which something happens or changes
  • "on the verge of tears"
• a ceremonial or emblematic staff
• a grass border along a road
• A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
• A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
• 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.
• The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
• An edge or border.
• An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
• An edge or border.
• The phallus.
• The phallus.
• The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
• An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
• A circumference; a circle; a ring.
• The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
• The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
• The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

Verb

• border on; come close to
  • "His behavior verges on the criminal"
• To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
• To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.

Synonyms

berm, besidewalk, boulevard, boulevard strip, brink, city easement, common, county strip, curb lawn, curb strip, devil strip/devil's strip/devilstrip, drivestrip/drive strip, easement, extension lawn, furniture zone, grass bay, grassplot, hellstrip, island strip, landscape zone, long acre, median, mow strip, nature strip, neutral ground, parking, parking strip, parkrow, parkstrip/park strip, parkway, parkway strip, planter zone, planting strip, right-of-way, road allowance, road verge, roadside, scepter, sceptre, shoulder, sidewalk buffer, sidewalk lawn, sidewalk plot, sidewalk strip, street lawn, subway, swale, terrace, threshold, tree belt, tree box, tree lawn, utility strip, verge, wand