buckram vs edge

buckram

verb
  • To stiffen with or as if with buckram. 

noun
  • A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. 

  • A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic. 

edge

verb
  • To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen. 

  • To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger. 

  • To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on. 

  • To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection. 

  • To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm. 

  • To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 

  • To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging. 

  • To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. 

  • To win by a small margin. 

noun
  • A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet. 

  • Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. 

  • The boundary line of a surface. 

  • An advantage. 

  • The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. 

  • The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time) 

  • A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally. 

  • The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud. 

  • A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax. 

  • A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge. 

  • A connected pair of vertices in a graph. 

How often have the words buckram and edge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )