1. edge - Noun
2. edge - Verb
3. Edge - Proper noun
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
To sail close to the wind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. Horace Mann
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
A desperate person will even hold on to a knife edge. Filipino Proverb
The fish at the top edge of the fire. Hawaiian Proverb
A tea cup on the edge of a well. Japanese Proverb