selvage
See also: Selvage
English edit
Etymology edit
From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self + edge.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selvage (countable and uncountable, plural selvages)
- (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.
- 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.
- (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.
- (geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
- (geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
- The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes[1]
- (mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.
Translations edit
finished edge of a woven fabric parallel with warp
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any finished edge of fabric
geology: clay-like material along and around a geological fault
edge plate of a lock
Verb edit
selvage (third-person singular simple present selvages, present participle selvaging, simple past and past participle selvaged)
- To give a selvage to (fabric).
References edit
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Selvage”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.