selvedge
Meaning of selvedge
noun
- an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unravelling.
- a zone of altered rock, especially volcanic glass, at the edge of a rock mass.
late Middle English: from an alteration of self + edge, on the pattern of early modern Dutch selfegghe . The geological term dates from the 1930s.
Information about selvedge
- It is a name.
- The plural form of selvedge is: selvedges.
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Hyphenation of selvedge
selvedge
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- selvedge is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
selvedge synonyms
Meaning selvage:
Words that rhyme with selvedge
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