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A board with its edge planed is said to be edge-shot. edge-tool, s. I. Literally : Hardware: A general name which includes the heavier descriptions of cutting-tools: axes, adzes, chisels, gouges, plane-bits. Other cutting-tools come within the province of the armorer or cutler, and are included under cutlery: knives, sci ors, shears, surgical instruments, and, by the analogy of a ociated use, forks. The making of swords was anciently the work of the armorer, but has probably merged into cutlery. Wood-cut ting tools are divided by Holtzapffel as follows: 1. Paring or splitting-tools, with thin edges, the angle of the basil not exceeding 60° with the straight face. This includes broad-axes, chisels, gouges, .; double-basil tools, such as axes. 2. Scraping-tools with thick edges, the angles measuring from 60° to 120°. These remove the fibers in the form of dust. The veneer-scraper is an instance. One angle of the edge of the steel plate is turned over to form a bur, known as a wire-edge. edgele 3. Shearing-tools, which are usually in pairs, act ing from opposite sides of the object, the basil and face having an angle of from 60° to 90° Iron and steel for edge-tools have been combined in a fagot and rolled so as to have a thickne of steel between layers of iron, for chopping axes and some other tools, and with a layer of steel on one side for broad-axes, chisels, ., which have but one basil. 4. A burnisher for rubbing the edges of boot and shoe soles. [EDGE-PLANE. 5. Saddlery : A tool used for removing the angular edge from a leather strap. For chamfering down the edges of a strap more broadly. another tool is used, having a blade and guides which travel along the edge and face respectively of the leather. [CHAMFERING-TOOL.] II. Fig .: Anything dangerous to deal or play with. "You jest: ill jesting with edge-tools." Tennyson: Prince , ii. 184. edge-wheel, s. A wheel traveling on its edge in a circular or annular bed, as in the ancient Phoenician oil-mills, the Chilian ore-mills, and many other crushing-mills. [CHILIAN-MILL.] ědģe, v. t. & i. [EDGE, 8.] A. Transitive : I. Literally 1. To furnish with an edge; to make an edge or border to. "It made my sword, though edged with flint, rebound." Dryden: Indian Emperor, ii. 4. 2. To fringe or border with anything. "I rid over hanging hills, whose tops were edged with groves, and whose feet were watered with winding rivers." -Pope. 3. To sharpen; to put an edge or sharpne on. "To edge her champion's sword." Dryden. II. Figuratively : 1. To sharpen, to excite, to exasperate, to em. bitter. "He was indigent and low in money, which perhaps might have a little edged his desperation." -Wotton : Life of Duke of Bucks . 2. To incite, to urge forward, to provoke, to egg, to instigate. "Up, princes, and with spirit of honor edged, More sharper than your swords, hie to the field." Shakesp.: Henry V., iii. 3. 3. To give point, sharpne , or bitterne to. "And Juvenal, instructed in thy page, Edges his satire, and improves his rage." Add is on: To Mr. Dryden. 4. To move or put forward by little and little. " Edging by degrees their chairs forward, they were in a little time got up close to one another."- Locke . B. Intransitive : 1. Ord. Lang.: To move forward or away by little and little; to retire gradually, so as not to attract notice. ( Lit. & fig .) "Now I must edge upon a point of wind, And make slow way, recovering more and more." Dryden: Cleomenes, iii. 1. 2. Naut .: To beat away from a shore or course. "On edging off from the shore, we soon got out of sounding."-Cook: Second Voyage , iii., ch. vii.