A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.
Exit a country momentarily and reenter. Usually this is done to satisfy immigration requirements.
The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
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 spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
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.
To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.