2syllables
edging
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Definitions ofedging
1verb
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
Example: "He edged the book across the table."
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
Example: "He edged away from her."
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
1noun
- Something that forms, defines or marks the edge.
Example: "The decorative edging around the door makes it easier to find in the dark."
- Technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.
- The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
- The sexual technique of maintaining a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm.
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