Words That End With: EDGE

• A small anchor used for warping a vessel; also called a kedge anchor.

• A glutton.

• To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.

• (of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.

• a deposit of personal property as security for a debt

• someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group

• a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

• a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something

• promise solemnly and formally

• pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals

• propose a toast to

• give as a guarantee

• bind or secure by a pledge

• a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

• any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

• an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

• enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

• minimize loss or risk

• any shape that is triangular in cross section

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation

• a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

• (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

• something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

• a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

• put, fix, force, or implant

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed

• cover before cooking

• search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

• remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water

• a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow

• a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges

• transport in a sleigh

• ride in or travel with a sledge

• beat with a sledgehammer

• a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

• grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers

• the boundary of a surface

• a line determining the limits of an area

• a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object

• the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

• a slight competitive advantage

• the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something

• advance slowly, as if by inches

• provide with a border or edge

• lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

• provide with an edge