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edge

 
 
/edʒ/ verb

Translation

edge (sth) up/down/past, etc to move somewhere gradually, or to make something move somewhere gradually
ağır ağır yaklaşmak; kıyıdan kıyıdan gelmek/ilerlemek; yavaş yavaş hareket ettirmek
She edged her way through the crowd of reporters.1606
[T] to put something around the edge of something else as a decoration
kenar geçirmek/yapmak
The cloth was edged with gold.954
(Definition of edge verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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