verge

lähennellä, olla jonkin rajoilla

reuna

äyräs

sauva A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
puhekieltä The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
An edge or border.
(w) (1608-1674)

Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theory(..)implies an absurdity.

But on the horizon's verge descried, / Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.

It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

(ux)

The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.

(rfquotek)

Eating blowfish verges on insanity.

Moyse ietta en la terre la verge qu'il tenoit dans sa main (..) elle fust soudain changé en serpent

Moses throw on the ground the staff that he held in is hand (..) suddenly, it changes into a serpent