verge

Meanings

1. 1
   noun A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
2. 2
   noun An edge or border.
3. 3
   noun The phallus.
4. 4
   noun An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
5. 5
   noun A circumference; a circle; a ring.
6. 6
   noun The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
7. 7
   noun The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
8. 8
   noun The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.