EDGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edging mean? 

• EDGING (noun)
  The noun EDGING has 1 sense:

1. border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)

  Familiarity information: EDGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("edging" is a kind of...):

border (a strip forming the outer edge of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edging"):

fringe (an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels)

orphrey (a richly embroidered edging on an ecclesiastical vestment)

Holonyms ("edging" is a part of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

arras; tapestry (a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs)

Derivation:

edge (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

 Context examples 

The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Their casual edging across the sidewalk to the curb, as they drew near, apprised him of discovery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Put this and that together, my tender pupil,” returned the wary Mowcher, touching her nose, “work it by the rule of Secrets in all trades, and the product will give you the desired result. I say I do a little in that way myself. One Dowager, SHE calls it lip-salve. Another, SHE calls it gloves. Another, SHE calls it tucker-edging. Another, SHE calls it a fan. I call it whatever THEY call it. I supply it for 'em, but we keep up the trick so, to one another, and make believe with such a face, that they'd as soon think of laying it on, before a whole drawing-room, as before me. And when I wait upon 'em, they'll say to me sometimes—WITH IT ON—thick, and no mistake—“How am I looking, Mowcher? Am I pale?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are not perhaps aware, he continued, edging his chair a little nearer the table, and speaking low, that there was a lady—a—a lunatic, kept in the house?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I trode on an edging of turf that the crackle of the pebbly gravel might not betray me: he was standing among the beds at a yard or two distant from where I had to pass; the moth apparently engaged him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)