Edge
Edge verb - To make sharp or sharper.
Lean
Lean verb - To set or cause to be at an angle.
Common collocations
| hands | edge hands | lean hands |
Both words in one sentence
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Yet people standing on the landing strips can basically lean over the edge (which has no railing) to look at them, and risk getting sucked into them.
Source: No OSHA Compliance - For a long time this was thought to only be possible where one edge of the gap is made up by a corner, but in fact the trick can even be pulled off when there is no wall to 'lean' against, it's just harder.
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One parries with the flat of the blade, since the sharp edge would get damaged from the strike, and there's no chance that either side will try to lean one another down; instant counterattack is the only rational response.
Source: Blade Lock
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Lean and Edge. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/edge/lean
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