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soft-verges

soft-verges is the plural of soft-verge.

Meaning of soft-verge

Noun

soft-verge (plural soft-verges)

  1. (UK, motoring) An unsealed strip along the edge of a sealed road.
    • I wrestled with the wheel, snaked her out of the skid after spinning round and then - horror of horrors - a rear wheel struck a soft verge, the car overturned and there was I, semi-conscious but, as far as I can recall, in no acute pain.1957, Stirling Moss, In the Track of Speed, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 82

Questions about soft-verges

What is soft-verges the plural of?
Soft-verges is the plural of soft-verge.

Words near soft-verges in the dictionary

  1. soft-sub
  2. soft-subbed
  3. soft-subbing
  4. soft-subs
  5. soft-verge
  6. soft-verges
  7. soft-water
  8. softa
  9. Softail
  10. Softails
  11. softas

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