edging : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: edging	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for edging
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
edging n border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Edge \Edge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Edged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Edging}.] 1. To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. To edge her champion's sword. --Dryden. 2. To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool. 3. To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. Hills whose tops were edged with groves. --Pope. 4. To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. [Obs.] By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged. --Hayward. 5. To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Edging \Edg"ing\, n. 1. That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. --Dryden. 2. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. {Edging machine}, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.