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Selvedge   Listen
noun
Selvedge, Selvage  n.  
1.
The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling.
2.
The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes.
3.
(Mining.) A layer of clay or decomposed rock along the wall of a vein. See Gouge, n., 4.





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"Selvedge" Quotes from Famous Books



... briefer voyage thither. The voyage is the same; yesterday, to-day and forever it remains unchanged. The voyager may judge if I am right when I say that the Pacific coast, or the coast of California, Oregon and Washington, is the selvage side of the American continent. I believe this is evidenced in the well-rounded lines of the shore; the smooth meadow-lands that not infrequently lie next the sea, and the comparatively few island-fragments that are discoverable ...
— In the Footprints of the Padres • Charles Warren Stoddard
... to keep hold of the effects to which this line of poor wretches was but the selvage; "it's fine! But I ...
— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells


Words linked to "Selvedge" :   edge, selvage


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