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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
edged
adj
  1. having a specified kind of border or edge; "a black-edged card"; "rough-edged leaves"; "dried sweat left salt-edged patches"
  2. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
    Synonym(s): cutting, edged, stinging
  3. having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination; "an edged knife"; "a two-edged sword"
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.
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