edging

Anything that forms, defines, or marks the edge of something.

Noun

  1. Anything that forms, defines, or marks the edge of something.
    • The decorative edging around the door makes it easier to find in the dark.
    • A means was found, for example, of fitting rubber edging to the doors and still retaining the handle and door lock. - 1951 March, “Reconstruction of London Transport Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 160:
  2. A technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.
  3. The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
  4. The sexual technique of maintaining a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm.

Forms

edgings

Antonyms

smearing

Derived

Hamburg edging

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of edge