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"edge" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often verge (5 letters).
Definitions
provide with an edge
Word origin
From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).
Used in a sentence
“I have the edge on him.”
“No, 'tis slander; / Whose edge is sharper than the sword;”
“And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges:”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer17 curated clues
01“Advantage by a little”4 letters
02“Border line”4 letters
03“Border of a blade”4 letters
04“Border of a page”4 letters
05“Border of a table”4 letters
06“Cliff's brink”4 letters
07“Knife's sharp side”4 letters
08“Outer boundary”4 letters
09“Outer limit”4 letters
10“Rim of a surface”4 letters
11“Rim or border”4 letters
12“Rim or boundary”4 letters
13“Sharp border”4 letters
14“Sharp boundary”4 letters
15“Sharp side”4 letters
16“Slight advantage”4 letters
17“Outer border”4 letters
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