Definition of "verge" in Englisch

noun

1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

2. An edge or border.

3. (obsolete) The phallus.

4. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.

5. A circumference; a circle; a ring.

6. (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.

7. (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.

8. (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.

   • Eating blowfish verges on insanity.

2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.