EDGED

• ___ out (defeated)

• ___ out (just beat)

• ___ out (won by a nose)

• Advanced cautiously

• Advanced gradually

• Advanced slowly

• Advanced with care

• Barely beat

• Barely beat out

• Barely beat, with 'out'

• Barely defeated

• Barely surpassed, with out

• Beat (out)

• Beat at the buzzer

• Beat barely

• Beat by a bit

• Beat by a hair

• Beat by a nose

• Beat by a whisker

• Beat by one, say

• Beat in a close one

• Bordered

• Crept

• Cutting

• Cutting, as a remark

• Defeated by a whisker

• Defeated, with out

• Did a lawn job

• Did a lawn maintenance job

• Did some lawn work

• Double- -- sword

• Double-___

• Double-___ (risky)

• Finished a lawn job

• Formed the border of

• Fringed

• Having a border

• Having boundaries

• Inched

• Inched (along slowly)

• Just beat

• Just beat out

• Like some weapons

• Like swords

• Lined

• Made a border

• Made one's way sideways

• Moved along a cliff

• Moved cautiously

• Moved furtively

• Moved gingerly

• Moved gradually

• Moved hesitantly

• Moved hesitatingly

• Moved sideways

• Moved slowly

• Moved stealthily

• Moved with caution

• Narrowly defeated

• Narrowly defeated, with out

• Neatened the garden

• Neatened the lawn

• Neatened the lawn, in a way

• Neatened the outskirts of the lawn

• Nosed (out)

• Put a border on

• Put on a border

• Rimmed

• Rory Gallagher: ___ In Blue

• Sarcastic

• Sharp-___

• Sharp, as a razor

• Sharpened

• Sidled

• Skirted

• Snuck (by)

• Squeaked by, in the sports pages

• Tidied the lawn

• Trenchant

• Trimmed along the walk

• Trimmed along the walk, e.g.

• Trimmed the lawn

• Trimmed the rim

• Trimmed, as the outskirts of the lawn

• Two- -- sword

• Used a weed whacker, perhaps

• Went sideways

• Whetted

• Whipped by a whisker

• Won by a nose

• Won by a nose, with out

• Won by a whisker

• Worked on lawn borders

• Worked on the lawn