edge

Meanings

The boundary line of a surface.
A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
An advantage.
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
In human sexuality, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.

To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
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.

From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō (compare Dutch egge, German Ecke, Swedish egg, Norwegian egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- ("sharp") (compare Welsh hogi ("to sharpen, hone"), Latin aciēs ("sharp"), acus, Latvian ašs, ass, Ancient Greek ἀκίς ("needle"), ἀκμή, and Persian آس ("grinding stone")).

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