verge

ot noun

1. A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
2. An edge or border.
3. The phallus.
4. An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.

fe’l verb

1. To be or come very close; to border; to approach. Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
2. To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope.