Clues for the word "VERGE"
We've had 39 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 170 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on November 25, 2025.
Definition of verge
- 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.
- n. - The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- n. - The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
- n. - The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
- n. - The edge or outside of a bed or border.
- n. - A slip of grass adjoining gravel walks, and dividing them from the borders in a parterre.
- n. - The penis.
- n. - The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
- v. i. - To border upon; to tend; to incline; to come near; to approach.
- v. i. - To tend downward; to bend; to slope; as, a hill verges to the north.
Referring Clues
- Brink
- Threshold
- Margin
- Border
- On the ___ of (approaching)
- Extreme edge
- Brink or threshold
- "Women on the ___ of a Nervous Breakdown" (1988 film)
- Precipice
- Edge
- Border (on)
- Brink or border
- Come close to
- Grassy edge
- On the ___ of (close to)
- Cusp
- Rim
- Boundary
- Transitional point
- Brink or edge
- Periphery
- "Standing on the ___ of Getting It On" (Funkadelic album)
- Border - edge
- Grass edge to road
- Bound over (say) cleric
- Pick-up by clergyman, for example, is the limit
- Never getting content staff
- Move towards the edge of the road
- The grass one is of marginal interest
- Come close to, with "on"
- Incline towards being a little over-generous
- A border in silver, generally
- Threshold, as of danger
- Border on being edgy
- Perhaps the evergreen part, by the way
- Margin of a river, generally
- Possibly grassy margin a river generally has
- On the ___ of (approaching soon)
- Borderline
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - November 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 08, 2025
- New York Times - September 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 14, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 11, 2025
- Mirror Mini - June 14, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2025
- New York Times - May 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 24, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 10, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 01, 2024
- Mirror Daily - July 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 15, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 09, 2024
- Daily Quick - February 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 06, 2024
- LA Times - January 30, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 19, 2024
- Family Time - January 14, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 28, 2023
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