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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Edge, v. i.
 1. To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
 2. To sail close to the wind.
    I must edge up on a point of wind.   --Dryden.
 To edge away or To edge off Naut., to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object.
 To edge down Naut., to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.
 To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees.
 To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel Naut., to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.