selvage

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English[edit]

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A selvage.

Etymology[edit]

From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self +‎ edge.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛlvɪd͡ʒ/
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Noun[edit]

selvage (countable and uncountable, plural selvages)

  1. (weaving) 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.
  2. Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
    • 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature‎[1], The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.
  3. (printing) 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.
  4. (geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
  5. (geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
  6. The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes[1]
  7. (mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.

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Verb[edit]

selvage (third-person singular simple present selvages, present participle selvaging, simple past and past participle selvaged)

  1. To give a selvage to (fabric).

References[edit]

  1. ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Selvage”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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