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Edger

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Noun

1. edger

a person who puts finishing edges on a garment

2. edger

garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Edger

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noun
1. 
the border, brim, or margin of a surface, object, etc
2. 
a brink or verge
the edge of a cliff
the edge of a breakthrough
3. mathematics
a. 
a line along which two faces or surfaces of a solid meet
b. 
a line joining two vertices of a graph
4. 
the sharp cutting side of a blade
5. 
keenness, sharpness, or urgency
the walk gave an edge to his appetite
6. 
force, effectiveness, or incisiveness
the performance lacked edge
7. dialect
a. 
a cliff, ridge, or hillside
b. (capital)
(in place names)
Hade Edge
8.  have the edge on
9.  on edge
10.  set someone's teeth on edge
verb
11. (transitive)
to provide an edge or border for
12. (transitive)
to shape or trim (the edge or border of something), as with a knife or scissors
to edge a pie
13. 
to push (one's way, someone, something, etc) gradually, esp edgeways
14. (transitive) cricket
to hit (a bowled ball) with the edge of the bat
15. (transitive)
to tilt (a ski) sideways so that one edge digs into the snow
16. (transitive)
to sharpen (a knife, etc)

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Edger

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noun
1. 
the thin, sharp, cutting part of a blade
2. 
the quality of being sharp or keen
3. 
the projecting ledge or brink, as of a cliff
4. 
the part farthest from the middle; line where something begins or ends; border, or part nearest the border; margin
5. 
the verge or brink, as of a condition
6. 
an intense, harsh, or irritable quality
his voice had a distinct edge
7.  Geometry
a line or line segment at which two plane surfaces meet
8.  US, Informal
advantage
you have an edge on me
9.  Informal
the quality of being edgy (sense 4)
verb transitiveWord forms: edged or ˈedging
10. 
a. 
to form or put an edge on; provide an edge for
b. 
to trim the edge of
11. 
to make (one's way) sideways, as through a crowd
12. 
to move gradually or cautiously
13.  Informal
to defeat in a contest by a narrow margin
often with out
14.  US, Skiing
to tilt (a ski) so that one edge bites into the snow, as in traversing a slope
verb intransitive
15. 
to move sideways
16. 
to move gradually or cautiously
to edge away from danger

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Edger

see synonyms of edger
n.
One that edges, such as a tool for trimming the edge of a lawn.

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