verges
noun
Meaning
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- An edge or border.
- The phallus.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
- To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.
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