broadside vs selvage

broadside

noun
  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

selvage

noun
  • The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving. 

  • Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling. 

  • The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge. 

  • Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault. 

  • That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side. 

  • A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling. 

  • The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes 

verb
  • To give a selvage to (fabric). 

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