selvage

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A selvage.

From early modern Dutch selfegghe (Modern Dutch zelfkant (“selvage”)), equivalent to self +‎ edge.

selvage (countable and uncountable, plural selvages)

(weaving) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
- 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature‎^[1], The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
  Her stately limbs the gather'd folds surround, / And spread their golden selvage on the ground.
(printing) The 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.
(geology) A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
(geology) Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes^[1]
(mining) That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.

finished edge of a woven fabric parallel with warp

any finished edge of fabric

excess area of printed or perforated sheet

geology: distinct border of a mass of igneous rock

geology: clay-like material along and around a geological fault

edge plate of a lock

selvage (third-person singular simple present selvages, present participle selvaging, simple past and past participle selvaged)

^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Selvage”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.