selvage

plural selvages · alternative selvedge

1. countableuncountablebusinessThe edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
2. countableuncountableAny edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.

   Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.

   1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008

3. countableuncountablemediaThe 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.
4. countableuncountablegeographyA distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
5. countableuncountablegeographyClay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
6. countableuncountableThe edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes
7. countableuncountablebusinessThat part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.

present singular third person selvages · participle present selvaging · participle past selvaged · past selvaged · alternative selvedge

1. To give a selvage to (fabric).

plural Selvages · alternative Salvidge · alternative Selvidge

1. A surname.