noun
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
An edge or border.
(obsolete) The phallus.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
(architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
(architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
(horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
verb
(intransitive) To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.