A spindle or axle of a wheel.
A stimulus or driving force.
A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
An edge or border.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.