How many syllables in Verge
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Verge
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verge
Definition
- n. - A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the
verge, carried before a dean.
- n. - The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted
tenants, they holding it in the hand, and swearing fealty to the lord.
Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- n. - The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court,
within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household
had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which
the marshal bore.
- n. - A virgate; a yardland.
- n. - A border, limit, or boundary of a space; an edge, margin, or
brink of something definite in extent.
- n. - A circumference; a circle; a ring.
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