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VERGE (Lat. virga, a rod)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 1021 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR

VERGE (Lat. virga, a rod) , originally a staff denoting authority, whence (from the ceremony in swearing fealty to a

lord

) the sense of a measurement, and so boundary or border, of

land

LAND

, or generally a margin of space. In

architecture

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

, a verge is the edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof; that on the

horizontal

HORIZONTAL

portion being called " eaves." The

term

TERM

" verge board," generally now known as

barge

BARGE (Med. Lat. barca, possibly connected with Lat. baris, Gr. flaps, a
boat
- BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)
used on the Nile)

board, is the name given to the board under the verge of gables, some-times moulded, and often very richly carved, perforated and cusped, and frequently having pendants and sometimes finials at the

apex

APEX

.

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